Hugues Aubriot

Hugues Aubriot (* around 1315, † around 1388) was a French lawyer and bailiff .

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Aubriot came from a family of money changers in Dijon . In 1341 he was public prosecutor for the Duke of Burgundy , in 1360 then ducal bailiff ("Bailli") of Dijon. On December 3, 1367 he was knighted Prévôt de Paris , 1375.

Aubriot organized the royal administration in the capital, promoted urban development and defense: he had sewers built, began with the expansion of the city wall and the "Bastide Saint-Antoine" (the later Bastille ). He also took vigorous measures to maintain law and order, including exaggerated regulations on restaurants and prostitution .

He was recognized by the people because he did not promote the merchants and also contradicted the university, but in return he became unpopular with the intellectuals due to his constant hostility towards the students. He was continuously supported by King Charles V , but lost the support of the rulers during the reign of the dukes (1380-1388): he was arrested and sentenced in 1381 to life imprisonment for heresy .

By the uprising of the Maillotins freed in March 1382, he fled from the city. He sought protection in Avignon , where Pope Clement VII rehabilitated him in 1383.

literature

• Jean Favier : Dictionnaire de la France médiévale . Fayard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-213-03139-8 .
• Le Roux de Lincy: Hugues Aubriot, prévot de Paris sous Charles V (Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartres; vol. 3). AR Lainé et J. Havard, Paris 1862 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Jean Marie Durand: Heurs et malheurs des prévôts de Paris . L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008, ISBN 978-2-296-06502-4 .