Jean Lemoine

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Jean Lemoine (* 1250 in Crécy-en-Ponthieu , † August 22, 1313 in Avignon ) was cardinal , bishop of Arras and papal legate to King Philip IV the fair ; he is the founder of the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine in Paris .

After completing his studies in theology at the University of Paris , he went on a trip to Rome , where he soon got access to the Rota . He wrote a highly regarded commentary on the 6th Book of Decretals , which earned him the cardinal purple in 1294.

Pope Boniface VIII sent him to France as his legate in 1302, where he was supposed to end the dispute between France and the Pope after the publication of the Bull Unam Sanctam , a task which he performed so skillfully that he won the king's goodwill acquired without losing that of the Pope. However, his efforts to get the king to give in to avoid excommunication failed.

He donated a chapel in Notre Dame Cathedral , in the nave and near the choir , called Autel des paresseux (Altar of the Lazy), bought their location in the city from the Augustinians in 1303 , and later founded it there for a hundred scholarship holders named Collège.

In 1305 he took part in the conclave in Perugia , where Clement V was elected, and followed him to Avignon , where he took up his residence. Cardinal Lemoine died here in 1313, his body was brought to Paris, where he was buried in the chapel of the Collège.

Cardinal Jean Lemoine was the first to define the presumption of innocence, which is important for criminal trials, and also spoke out in favor of the central defendant's right to a fair hearing, which he justified theologically with the fact that God had given Adam and Eve the opportunity to evict themselves from the court before the judgment was passed To justify paradise for eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3 / 11-13): “And he said: Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat from it? "Then said Adam:" The woman whom you brought with me gave me from the tree, and I ate. "Then said the Lord God to the woman: "Why did you do that?" The woman said: "The snake deceived me, so that I ate."

His brother André Lemoine, Bishop of Noyon , who died in 1315, was buried in the same tomb. The double epitaph for this was still available at the end of the 18th century.

Footnotes

1. ↑ but not Bishop of Meaux , as was occasionally asserted; the statement (in fr :) that he was bishop of Poitiers is not confirmed there; Favier, in turn, passes him off as Bishop of Arras , which is supported in the corresponding listing

Web links

• Jean Lemoine. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website, English)