Clarin (Bishop of Carcassonne)

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Clarin ( French Clarín , Latin Clarinus ; † 1248 ) was a bishop of Carcassonne in the 13th century.

The official seal of Bishop Clarin of Carcassonne (S [IGILLVM] CLARINI EPI [SCOPI] CARCASSO [N] E) from the document from 1229.

Clarin was a Magister and the chaplain of the leader of the Albigensian Crusade , Simon von Montfort . As a close confidante, he appeared several times between 1211 and 1216 as a documentary witness in the position of chaplain and chancellor for Montfort, including on May 22, 1215 in Carcassonne in the presence of Crown Prince Louis VIII of France . After Montfort's death before Toulouse in May 1218, Clarin took over the chancellery for his son and successor Amalrich VII of Montfort , with whom he was likely to have returned to northern France after his surrender in January 1224. Clarin was able to return to the south in 1226 in the wake of the now King Louis VIII. In September of that year he was nominated by the King for the post of Bishop of Carcassonne. This church office had been vacant since the death of Bishop Guido in 1223 and the appointment of Clarin was intended to prevent a possible restoration of Bernhard Raimund von Roquefort († 1231), the incumbent who was expelled in 1212 and who belonged to a notorious family of heretics.

As a bishop, Clarin was an advocate of the peace order determined in the Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1229) for what was then southern France ( Occitania ), in the interests of which he acted as a mediator between the local feudal nobility and the crown. In 1229 he was one of those church princes who accepted the submission of Count Roger Bernard II of Foix in Saint-Jean-de-Verges . In 1130 he made a trip to Rome to ask the Pope to appoint a new legate for southern France. During the uprisings of Trencavel in 1240 and of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse in 1243, Carcassonne was a pillar of the royal and catholic order of the south thanks to the bishop and the royal seneschal . Among other things, it granted the Archbishop of Narbonne Pierre Amiel, who had been forced into exile on several occasions, a safe refuge. On August 23, 1246, Clarin and the Seneschal brokered the submission of Trencavel to King Louis IX. the saint .

Bishop Clarin was last guaranteed to be alive on January 26, 1248, and died a few months later. As the date of his death, from two necrologies and a church chronicle, three different days have come down to us (April 25th, 26th, May 26th).

literature

  • Jacques-Alphonse Mahul, Cartulaire et archives des communes de l'ancien diocèse et de l'arrondissement administratif de Carcassonne, vol. 5 (1867), p. 414 ff. ( Online )
  • Yves Dossat, Remarques sur la légation de l'évêque Gautier de Tournai dans le Midi de la France (1232-1233), in: Annales du Midi, Vol. 75 (1963), pp. 77-85. ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Mahul, p. 416.
  2. ↑ "Clarini cancellarii Domini comitis", cf. Histoire générale de Languedoc , Vol. 3 (1737), No. CXVI, Col. 246 f.
  3. ↑ See Histoire générale de Languedoc, vol. 3 (1737), no.CXCIII, col. 346 ff.
  4. ↑ See Guillaume de Puylaurens , Historiae Albigensium , In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 20 (1840), p. 764.
  5. ↑ See Histoire générale de Languedoc, 4th edition, vol. 8 (1879), no.CCLXXV, col. 1206 ff.
predecessor Office successor
Guido of Vaux-de-Cernay Bishop of Carcassonne
1226-1248 		Wilhelm Arnold
personal data
SURNAME Clarin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarin, Clarinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Carcassonne
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1248