Guillaume de La Jugie

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Guillaume de La Jugie (* 1317 in Eyrein ; † April 28, 1374 in Avignon ) was a nephew of Pope Clement VI. and cousin of Pope Gregory XI. He was a canon in Rouen and archdeacon in Paris, cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin , then cardinal priest of San Clemente (1342-1374).

Life

Guillaume de la Jugie was born near La Jugie in the parish of Eyrein near Rosiers-d'Égletons . He was a son of Jacques de La Jugie and Guillaumette Roger, sister of Pierre, who later became Clement VI. His brother Pierre (1319-1376) also became a cardinal.

Clement VI. appoints his nephew cardinal

Guillaume de la Jugie became a canon in the chapter of the cathedral of Rouen on September 22, 1332 , then canon and archdeacon of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral . At the consistory of September 20, 1342, his uncle Clemens VI appointed him. cardinal and cardinal deacon of Santa Marie in Cosmedin. He entered the Curia in Avignon on October 12, 1342 .

La Chaise-Dieu Abbey, where Guillaume de La Jugie was buried

His embassies to Italy and Spain

After he had become archdeacon of Transylvania in 1345 , he was sent in 1350 together with the cardinals Annibal de Ceccano and Guy de Boulogne as a papal legate to the Kingdom of Naples .

His second embassy took him to Spain five years later. He left Avignon on July 22, 1355 with the title of legate a latere (in secret). On November 24th he reached Torà ( province of Lleida ), which was besieged by Peter the Cruel , King of Castile . Pope Innocent VI had instructed him to demand the release of the bishop of Sigüenza Pedro Gómez Álvarez de Albornoz , who had been imprisoned by the king, who had ordered the king to separate from his wife Blanche de Bourbon . To get him to give in, the cardinal had to threaten to pronounce the interdict on Castile .

The fiefs in Languedoc

In 1348, during the plague epidemic , King Philip VI. asked by France by the cardinal to give his consent to the acquisition of the castles of Ferrals-les-Corbières and the lordship of La Livinière in Languedoc .

The heirs of Cardinal Pietro Colonna († 1326), terrified by the epidemic, could not wait to get rid of the property. Royal permission was given, but sales had to wait until the plague ended. The treaty was not signed until 1350 in the name of Nicolas de La Jugie , the cardinal's older brother.

His livery cardinalice

His livery cardinalice (the palace of a cardinal in Avignon) was located between what is now Rue Félix Gras and Rue Joseph Vernet. In Plan-de-Lunel, the palace was joined by the Vinea Vespalis (Bischofsweinberg).

Without leaving Avignon, he became archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome between 1362 and 1365 , then cardinal priest of San Clemente .

He died in his palace on April 28, 1374 and, at his request, was buried in the church of La Chaise-Dieu Abbey .

literature

  • François Duchesne : Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois de naissance ou qui ont été promus au cardinalat par l'expresse recommandation de nos roys. Paris 1660.
  • Étienne Baluze : Vitae paparum Avenionensium, sive collectio actorum veterum. Volume 1 and 2. Paris, 1693.
  • Auguste du Boys, François Arbelot: Biography of the Hommes illustres de l'ancienne province du Limousin. Limoges 1854.
  • Pierre Pansier: Les palais cardinalices d'Avignon aux XIVe et XVe siècles. Fasc. 1, 2 et 3. Avignon 1926-1932.
  • Joseph Girard: Evocation du vieil Avignon. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1958.
  • Guillaume Mollat : Contribution à l'histoire du Sacré Collège de Clément V à Eugène IV. Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, Volume 46, 1961.
  • Marc Dykmans: Les palais cardinalices d'Avignon. Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome, Vol. 83, No. 2, 1971.
  • Pierrette Merceron, Robert Merceron, Hervé Aliquot: Armorial des cardinaux limousins ​​de la papauté d'Avignon. Lemouzi No. 75, 1980.
  • Anne-Marie Hayez: Une famille cardinalice à Avignon au XIVe, les La Jugie. Annuaire de la société des Amis du palais des papes, 1980–1981.

Remarks

  1. In 1313, Guillemette Roger's dowry was made by her uncle Géraud d'Aigrefeuille, Knight of Champagnac-la-Prune ; she married Jacques, a simple man from La Jugie, a town south of Eyrein, between Tulle and Rosiers-d'Égletons, on the Monday after the Madeleine festival.
  2. a b c d e f La Jugié, Guillaume de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed January 4, 2019.
  3. The La Jugie family had no major fiefdoms. In 1339, after having become cardinal priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo before going to Avignon , Pierre Roger managed to get the king of France to ennoble his brother-in-law Jacques de La Jugie and knight him.
  4. Pietro Colonna was the patron of Francesco Petrarch , friend of his brother Giacomo Colonna, Bishop of Lombez
  5. After his death, the palace became a monastery dedicated to St. Praxedis . The convent was founded by Cardinal Pedro Gomez de Barroso in Montfavet . The presence of routiers (soldiers or highway robbers) forced the clergy to seek refuge in Avignon.
  6. He was ordained a priest on September 22, 1368.
  7. The statue of the tomb of Clement VI. in La Chaise-Dieu represented a number of members of his family, including Guillaume and Pierre de La Jugie.