Jean de Marigny

Part of the Gisant Jean de Marignys in the Collegiate Church of Écouis

Jean de Marigny (* before 1309; † December 27, 1351 ) was Bishop of Beauvais (1313-1347) and Archbishop of Rouen (1347-1351) as well as a French military and statesman.

family

He was the son of Philippe Le Portier de Marigny and his second wife, thus a brother of Philippe de Marigny , the archbishop of Sens and a half-brother of the royal minister Enguerrand de Marigny , to whom he owes his first episcopate.

Life

As a student of civil law in Orléans in 1309, Jean the Marigny was cantor in Notre-Dame de Paris . He became a pastor in Gamaches and had benefices in Rouen, Paris, Sens , Lisieux , Auxerre , Meaux , Arras , Chartres and Orléans. In 1312 he became archdeacon in Sens .

On January 8, 1313, Jean de Marigny was appointed Bishop of Beauvais on the recommendation of the King by Pope Clement V. In the 34 years that he held this office, he drove the construction of the cathedral of Beauvais . After the collapse of the cathedral on November 28, 1284, the master builders were dejected. Jean de Marigny managed to revive the work after three decades of delay by donating glass windows. When he left Beauvais as Archbishop of Rouen in 1347, the installation of the windows was almost complete. The Hundred Years' War led to his departure then a renewed halt the construction work.

In 1321 he revived the veneration of Saint Angadrême de Renty († around 695), the patroness of the city of Beauvais from the family of the early Counts of Boulogne , who founded the monastery of Oroër near the city , which was destroyed by the Normans in 851 was.

The fall of his half-brother Enguerrand de Marigny reduced its importance even before Philip VI took office. In 1328 he became ecclesiastical advisor to the Grand Chamber of the Parlement , and it was he who made the famous statement in the assembly of barons and prelates who deliberated on the succession to the throne after the "Capétiens directs" died out in the same year: "Les lis ne filent pas "(" The lilies do not spin ", according to Mt 6.28  EU ) as a reference to the Lex Salica , which excluded female succession, with which he the claims of the English King Edward III. foiled on the reign in France.

The following year, after Macé Ferrand had fallen out of favor, the new King Philip VI. temporarily appointed as keeper of the seal and thus French chancellor (May 1329 to July 1, 1329).

On December 24, 1332, Jean de Marigny said goodbye to the king, whose most important advisor he had become on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land , and accompanied John of Bohemia on his campaign to Italy. In 1334 he was part of the legation to Asia Minor , which was supposed to prepare a new crusade under the direction of Admiral Jean II. De Chepoix .

From 1339 to 1347 he was lieutenant general of the king in Gascon , Limousin , Poitou , Saintonge and Languedoc , most recently with the title of viceroy. As lieutenant general, Jean der Marigny founded the bastide Beauvais-sur-Tescou near Albi in 1342 , but it did not experience the boom he expected. From 1343 to 1344 he was also President of the Court of Auditors. In 1346 he defended Beauvais during the siege by the English, who were ultimately unsuccessful.

In old age he became Archbishop of Rouen on May 14, 1347. He died on December 27, 1351 and was buried in the collegiate church of Écouis . His embroidered miter , which survives the only authentic portrait of his half-brother Enguerrand, is in the Museum of Évreux .

literature

• Georges Tessier, Les chanceliers de Philippe VI, in Comptes-rendus des séances de l'année ... , Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , 101st year, No. 4, 1957, pp. 356-373.
• Vincent Tabbagh, Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae 2 Diocèse de Rouen: Répertoire prosopographique des évêques, dignitaires et chanoines des diocèses de France de 1200 à 1500 , Turnhout, Brepols, 1998, ISBN 978-2-503-50638-8 , LCCN 98229968, p. 102-103
• Jean Favier , Dictionnaire de la France médiévale , Paris, Fayard 1993, p. 619

predecessor	Office	successor
Nicolas Roger	Archbishop of Rouen 1347–1351	Pierre de la Foret
Simon de Clermont de Nesle	Bishop of Beauvais 1313–1347	Guillaume Bertran

Remarks

1. ↑ "Et pourquoi vous inquiéter au sujet du vêtement? Considérez comment croissent les lis des champs: ils ne travaillent ni ne filent" ( Louis Segond , edition of 1910), "And what do you care about your clothes? Learn from the lilies, that grow in the field: They don't work and they don't spin. " ( Standard translation 1980)
2. ↑ Biblio. 76 , No. 421, p. 349.