Eudes Rigaud

Eudes Rigaud or Odo Rigaldus (* around 1200; † July 2, 1275 ) was an archbishop of Rouen .

Life

He was a Franciscan and was headmaster ( magister regens ) at the Paris Minorite Convention. He was one of the "four magisters" who wrote the official commentary on the Franciscan rule in 1242. As Abbot of Saint-Marc in Rouen and professor of theology at the University of Paris , Eudes Rigaud came into the personal environment of King Louis IX. at whose instigation he was appointed Archbishop of Rouen in 1247. In 1248 he was present at the General Chapter of the Franciscans in Sens , in which the king also took part before he set out for the sixth crusade .

After the king's return, Eudes Rigaud became one of the king's closest confidants and friends. In 1255 he performed the wedding of Princess Isabella with King Theobald II of Navarre and from 1258 he was a regular member of the royal parliament. As a diplomat, he was instrumental in the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris , which he read out publicly in the garden of the Palais de la Cité on December 4, 1259 , to then witness the homagium of the English King Henry III. towards Louis IX. to be. He also worked for the king in Rome (pilgrimage) and in Aragón . Although opposed to the idea of ​​the crusade, he preached it in 1268 in his archdiocese and took part in the seventh crusade (1270), on which the king died. From the Pope he was then a member of the canonization commission for Louis IX. ordered. He died in 1275 and was buried in Rouen Cathedral.

register

Eudes Rigaud left a meticulously kept register of the visits he carried out between 1248 and 1269 in his official area ( Registrum visitationum archiepiscopi rothomagensis ). It provides one of the most meaningful insights into the social, political, economic and religious life of a French diocese in the 13th century. It was edited by Théodose Bonnin in 1852 and most recently by JF Sullivan in 1964 ( The Register of Eudes of Rouen ).

literature

• P. Andrieu-Guitrancourt: L'archevêque Eudes Rigaud et la vie de l'église au XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1938)
• Jacques Le Goff : Ludwig the Holy (Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000), ISBN 3-608-91834-5
• AJ Davis: The holy bureaucrat. Eudes Rigaud and religious reform in thirteenth-century Normandy (Ithaca, NY [et al.]: Cornell Univ. Press, 2006)

predecessor	Office	successor
Eudes I. Clement	Archbishop of Rouen 1247–1275	Guillaume de Flavacourt