Milon de Nanteuil

Milon de Nanteuil († September 6, 1234 ) was a bishop of Beauvais . He was a son of the Gaucher de Châtillon and the Helvide de Nanteuil. Milon's father was a member of the Châtillon family and founded a younger branch of the family with the legacy of his wife, Nanteuil-la-Fosse , as an ancestral home.

Life

Milon de Nanteuil belonged as a clergyman to the annex of Bishop Philip of Beauvais and ran for the Archdiocese of Reims in 1202 . His attempt to bribe the electoral assembly with 3,000 marks failed due to the intervention of a papal legate. In 1206 he became canon in the cathedral chapter of Beauvais and in the following year his cathedral bailiff (Prévot). After the death of Bishop Philip in 1217, Milon was finally elected Bishop-Count of Beauvais, and this office was also associated with the dignity of a pair . In the same year he took over the administration of the Archdiocese of Reims after the archbishop set out on the Damiette Crusade (Fifth Crusade). In 1219 Milon embarked on this crusade with his brother, the knight André de Nanteuil, in his office the Bishop of Soissons represented him . During the fighting for Damiette , he was briefly taken prisoner by the Saracens , but was released again. On his return to France he visited Rome in 1222 , where he was met by Pope Honorius III. was ordained bishop. When he arrived in France in 1223 he assisted at the funeral of King Philip II August . In 1225 he began developing plans to build a new cathedral in Beauvais after the old one had recently been destroyed in a fire. He accompanied King Ludwig VIII on the Albigensian Crusade in 1226 and took part in the coronation of King Louis IX that same year . part.

In 1232 Milon got into a serious conflict with the young king, which had sparked off by the election of the mayor of Beauvais. King Philip II once recognized the city's right to vote, according to which the bishop can appoint one of several candidates proposed by the city council for mayor, regardless of royal interests. But when there were complications in the election in 1232, King Louis IX interfered. got involved and arbitrarily appointed a citizen from Senlis as mayor. Thereupon there was a violent uprising of the citizens of Beauvais in which several deaths occurred. Milon then met with the king in Bresle and asked him to stay out of this matter, since it affected the episcopal jurisdiction and not the royal one. Louis IX did not accept this argument and moved into Beauvais. He had several people responsible for the unrest arrested and locked in specially built prisons, he had the houses of fifteen allegedly corrupt citizens demolished and 1,500 people were forcibly relocated to Paris .

King Louis IX had thus established a royal rule in Beauvais, which he immediately let the bishop feel by demanding 800 Paris pounds from him as a transfer fee for the right of hospitality. The episcopal duty to pay for the king's stays in the city was once estimated by King Philip II at 100 pounds, Louis IX. but justified his much higher demand because of the extraordinary nature of his visit. When Milon asked for a deferment of payment, the king immediately withdrew his temporalia and sold his wine in the market square of Beauvais. Milon appealed to his counterparts, the Archbishop of Reims and Pope Gregory IX. for support. They all showed solidarity with him so that he could impose the interdict on his own diocese. A provincial synod condemned the king's attitude and the Pope asked the Queen Mother, Blanka of Castile , to influence her son.

Milon died in the midst of the dispute in 1234. His successor in office continued the dispute with the king, and the Pope even threatened him with excommunication . Ultimately, however, the Beauvais diocese had to give in to the crown and suffer a significant loss of power in its administrative district, as the Pope relied on a good understanding with France in his dispute with the emperor.

Milon was a patron of the poet and writer Jean Renart .

literature

• Jacques Le Goff : Ludwig the Holy (Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000), ISBN 3-608-91834-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 32, cap. III, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 332
2. ^ Wilhelm Brito , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 113

predecessor	Office	successor
Philipp von Dreux	Bishop of Beauvais 1217 - 1234	Godefroi of Clermont