Jean de Coras

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Jean de Coras (born December 3, 1512 in Réalmont ( Département Tarn ), † October 4, 1572 in Toulouse ) was a French lawyer and professor in Toulouse. He died as a victim of the riots around the Bartholomew Night in Toulouse. De Coras took part in the consideration of the " Martin Guerre " case.

Frontispice from the Arresto Memorable (1560).

Live and act

De Coras was born in Réalmont as the son of a lawyer at the Parlement in Toulouse, avocat au Parlement de Toulouse . His mother's name was Jeanne de Termes. He studied law in Toulouse, Cahors , Orléans , Paris and Padua and received his doctorate in Siena in 1535. Among his teachers were Franciscus Curtis the Younger († 1495) and Marianus Socinus the Younger (1482–1556). After receiving his doctorate in Padua in 1535 with Filippo Decio (1454-1535), he taught law from 1536 at the University of Toulouse, followed by Valence in 1545 and in Ferrara in 1550, where one of the most popular professors of his time saw him .

In 1552 De Coras became a member of the Parlement of Toulouse and took part in the famous study of Martin Guerre, he wrote Arrest Memorable du Parlement de tolose (1560). Later in 1562, after converting to Protestantism , he failed in an attempt to open the city of Toulouse to the Calvinists . He took part in the Huguenot uprising in the city on the Garonne . The rebellion failed and de Coras had to flee to Navarre , where he took over the duties of Chancellor of the Kingdom of Navarre , chancelier du royaume de Navarre . He later returned to Toulouse around 1563. Henry II appointed him councilor in Toulouse. But he was forced to leave the city again in 1566 and lived there for a time in La Rochelle .

De Coras was married twice, the name of his second wife was Jacquette de Bussi. De Coras supported the Huguenots in the Protestant riots that culminated in the First Huguenot War . Under the influence of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé , de Coras was imprisoned in 1568 and murdered in prison in 1572 after the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Night.

Dominions in western and southwestern Europe under Carlos I of Spain and Henry II of France around 1519–1556; including the Kingdom of Navarre , highlighted in yellow

Works

  • Altercacion en forme de dialogue, de l'empereur Adrian, & du philosophe Epictète, contenant soixante et treze quéstions, & autant de réponses. rendu de latin en françois, par monsieur maître Jean de Coras, docteur és droits, & conseiller du roi, au parlem. 1558.
  • Arrest memorable du parlement de Tolose: contenant, une histoire prodigieuse, de nostre temps, avec cent & onze belles, & doctes annotations ... Par Monsieur M. Jean de Coras, conseiller en la dite cour & rapporteur du procez. Prononcé és arrests generaux. 1560.
  • Arrestum sive Placitum parlamenti Tholosani, continens historiam (in casu matrimoniali) admodum memorabilem, adeoque prodigiosam: una cum centum elegantissimis atque doctissimis annotationibus clarissimi jc Dn.Joan. Corasii, consiliarii Regii, & illius.
  • Tolosatis jurisconsulti In titul. C. de impuberum, ad amplissimum virum Joannem Bertrandum praesidem parisiensem commentarii. Quae in hoc volumine continentur sequens pagella indicat. Ad lectorem.
  • Petit discours des parties et office d'un bon et entier juge. De l'arrest memorable du Parlement de Tolose, contenant une histoire prodigieuse. De l'edict des mariages clandestins. Des douze reigles de Jean Pic de la Mirandole. Le tout ou dressé, ou enric.
  • Des Mariages clandestinement et irreveremment contactes par les enfans de famille au deceu ou contre le gré, vouloir et consentement de leurs Peres et Meres, petit discours ... A trêcretien ... prince Henri deuxieme ... Roy de France. Pierre du Puis, Toulouse 1557.

literature

  • Merio Scattola: The natural law before the natural law. On the history of the “ius naturae” in the 16th century. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-36552-8 , p. 147
  • Piet Hein Donner: The Munchhausen Trick. ( Memento from May 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Legal Infrastructure as an Element of a Strategic Development Approach. CILC Seminar in Honor of Ernst Hirsch Ballin. The Hague, November 1, 2004, pp. 8-12.

Web links

Wikisource: Jean de Coras  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Réseau des Bibliothèques - Université de Toulouse. Coras, Jean de
  2. ^ Ernst Holthöfer: De Coras, Jean. In: Michael Stolleis (Ed.): Juristen: a biographical lexicon; from antiquity to the 20th century. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45957-9 , p. 162.
  3. ^ Friedrich Karl von Savigny: History of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Volume 6, Mohr and Zimmer, 1831, p. 307.
  4. ↑ John Corasius law Historical notes and texts: Heino spear. Brief biography data
  5. ↑ P. Arabeyre, J.-L. Halphérin, J. Krynen: Dictionnaire historique des juristes français (XIIe-XXe siècle). Pub. sous la dir. de Paris, PUF, 2007.
  6. ^ Axel Rüth: Narrated history: narrative structures in the French annales historiography. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-018369-2 , p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Coras, Jean de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joannis Corasi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH Réalmont ( Tarn Department )
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1572
Place of death Toulouse