Philibert-Charles de Pas de Feuquières

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Philibert-Charles de Pas de Feuquières (* 1657 in Artois ; † July 25, 1726 in Agde ) was bishop of the then southern French diocese of Agde from 1702 to 1726 .

Life

Philibert-Charles de Pas-Feuquières came from a family attested since the Crusades from the Artois , which got its name from the place Pas in today's Pas-de-Calais department and owned the barony of Feuquières in today's Oise department . Its members had distinguished themselves primarily as military men. The great-grandfather François de Pas, Seigneur de Feuquières, († 1590) was First Chamberlain of Henry IV , the grandfather Manassès de Pas , Marquis de Feuquières, military leader in the Thirty Years War ; the father, Isaac de Pas , Marquis de Feuquières, became viceroy in New France , the French possessions in North America , in 1660 . From 1672 to 1682 he was the French ambassador to Sweden and later to Madrid. His wife and the mother of his children was Anne Louise de Gramont (Mademoiselle de Guiche), a half-sister of Marshal Antoine III. de Gramont . The couple's eldest son, Antoine , also became a soldier. Philibert-Charles, named after his uncle Philibert de Gramont , a brother of his mother, embarked on a church career as a younger son. In 1687 the University of Paris earned him a doctorate in theology. In 1691 he exchanged the Saint-Pierre Abbey in Chalon-sur-Saône , which he had owned in Kommende since 1673 , for Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles (near Lisieux ). As vicar general of the diocese of Sens he participated twice in the National Assembly of the French clergy in part and was awarded certification on 15 April in 1702 by King Louis XIV. Appointed Agde in southern France as bishop of the diocese.

From Pope Clement XI. preconized in the consistory of June 12, 1702 , he received the deed of appointment on July 31, 1702 by the Archbishop of Sens, Hardouin Fortin de La Hoguette , in the Church of the Augustinian Discalceaten ( Notre-Dame-des- Victoires ) in Paris . Co -consecrators were Bishop Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy of Montpellier and Bishop Charles-Nicolas Taffoureau de Fontaine of Alet . On September 18, 1702 the newly consecrated took the oath of allegiance to the king in the palace chapel of Versailles and then went to his diocese.

Since Bishop Feuquières took the residence obligation very seriously, he only left his district when important tasks required it. When the estates of Languedoc paid their respects to King Louis XIV in 1707, the eloquent Feuquières gave the official address and he “spoke very well,” as the Marquis de Dangeau notes in his memoir. On the feast of All Saints' Day 1707, Bishop Feuquières held a solemn high mass in Paris in the presence of the king. In 1715 he took part in the National Assembly of the French clergy in Paris as a member of the Church of Narbonne .

From today's perspective, a bizarre event during his episcopate is passed down from the year 1704: After the citizens of Agde from Pope Clement IX. had received a bull to combat a grapevine pest called babote (the springworm , Latin Sparganothis pilleriana ), the bishop took the bull in a solemn procession through the vineyards on a Sunday in May 1704 and "banished" the pest. The success of this measure is not recorded. In addition, school sisters ( Soeurs Noires , i.e. Augustinian women ) came to Agde during Feuquière's tenure and in 1719 opened an educational institute for young girls; the education of the boys was given to the Oratorians by the city with the consent of the bishop .

Monseigneur Feuquières was involved in two episcopal ordinations. On October 3, 1702, shortly after his own consecration, he was - probably still in Paris - co-consecrator at the consecration of Bishop André-Daniel de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire von Tulle and on July 13, 1710 he consecrated - with the assistance of the bishops Charles des Alrics de Rousset of Béziers and Honoré de Quiqueran de Beaujeu of Castres - in the cathedral of Agde Jacques Maboul as Bishop of Alet .

Feuquières died on July 25, 1726 and was buried in the choir of St. Etienne Cathedral. He had bequeathed his entire estate to the hospital of his diocese in a will.

literature

  • Fisquet H [onoré Jean Pierre]: La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana). Paris: Repos, 1864–1871.
  • Jean, Armand: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Paris [et al.]: Picard [et al.], 1891

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dangeau, Mémoires, vol. XI, p. 433, nov. 4 1707, quoted from Charles Joret, Basville et l'épiscopat de Languedoc, in: Annales du Midi: revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale, 1895, Volume 7, Issue 7–25, pp. 5-50.
  2. ↑ Cf. Denis Thiery: Les Tordeuses nuisibles à la vigne, in: Ravageurs de la vigne, 2nd ed., Bordeaux: Feret, 2008, pp.214–246, esp. P. 216.

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SURNAME Feuquières, Philibert-Charles de Pas de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Artois
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1726
Place of death Agde