Pierre Filholi

Pierre Filholi or Pierre Filleul (* 1438 in Gannat or Aix-en-Provence , † January 22, 1541 in Paris ) was a French prelate of the 16th century, Bishop of Sisteron and Archbishop of Aix .

Life

Filholi was the first president of the Chambre des comptes in Paris when he was given to King Louis XII after the death of Laurent Bureau in 1504 . was chosen to succeed him as Bishop of Sisteron. In September 1504 he was led by Pope Julius II, together with Carlo Domenico del Carretto , Marchese del Finale, to the negotiations in Blois between Emperor Maximilian I and Louis XII. as a result of which the Republic of Venice was forced to give back all the territories it had taken from Hungary, Austria, Milan, the Holy See and Naples ( Treaty of Blois of September 22, 1504). For his permanent travels between king and pope, Pierre Filholi was rewarded on March 9, 1506 with the archdiocese of Aix (he gave up the diocese of Sisteron in September 1506). Carretto had recently been made cardinal on December 1, 1505.

Pierre Filholi could not take office until 1508. In 1510 the University of Aix chose him as its chancellor. Since his obligations to the crown did not enable him to permanently reside in the archdiocese, he transferred the administration to various vicars general . From 1513 he was deputy ( lieutenant ) of the governor of Provence . In 1515 he was appointed honorary advisor to the Parlement d'Aix. He must suppress the dispute that broke out in Marseille between the Forbin and Guiran families over the administration of the city. Pierre Filholi sided with Forbins and had Guiran arrested.

Archbishop Filholi took part in the council that Louis XII. convened for September 1510 in Tours and the aim was to save his ally Alfonso I d'Este , Duke of Ferrara, through a campaign against Pope Julius II. On leaving the council, Pierre Filholi was arrested on the orders of the Pope, brought to Avignon and imprisoned there. The Pope's death in February 1513 and the subsequent peace between France and the new Pope brought the archbishop's freedom back.

On September 18, 1522 he was appointed deputy to François I de Bourbon-Saint-Pol as Governor of Paris ( Lieutenant en l'absence du Comte de Saint-Pol ); he took on this task for a little over a year until he was replaced on October 24, 1523 by Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme .

He served on the Conseil public on that after the Battle of Pavia (1525) and the capture of King Francis I, was formed. Since he was now forced to reside in Paris, in 1530 he asked the king to place his nephew Antoine Imbert dit Filholi at his side as coadjutor in Aix , which the Pope confirmed on March 9, 1530.

Pierre Filholi died on January 22, 1541 in Paris at the age of 103. Antoine Imbert became his successor.

Construction activity

The late Gothic portal of Aix Cathedral goes back to Archbishop Filholi with door leaves carved from walnut wood, which today are usually hidden behind a paneling; they were carved by Jean Guiramand from 1508 to 1510 in the latest Gothic style (flamboyant Gothic) and in places already show traces of the Renaissance .

After his return from captivity in Avignon, Pierre Filholi commissioned further construction work: he had the cathedral choir closed with a wrought iron gate; the archbishop's palace received the grand staircase, a splendid gallery was built in the Dominican church in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume , today's basilica Sainte-Mare-Madeleine was built from 1508 to 1532 after (with interruptions) a construction period of around 200 years finally finished.

literature

• Honoré Fisquet La France pontificale ( Gallia Christiana ) , Diocèse de Sisteron , pp. 103-106
• Jean-Scholastique Pitton, Annales de la sainte Eglise d'Aix… , chez Mathieu Libéral, Lyon 1668, pp. 209–218

Remarks

1. ^ Jean-Pierre Babelon, Nouvelle Histoire de Paris - Paris au XVIe siècle , Diffusion Hachette, 1986, p. 525ff Gouverneurs et Lieutenants-généraux de Paris et d'Île-de-France