Pierre de Belleperche

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Pierre de Belleperche , also Latinized as Petrus de Bellapertica (* around 1250 in Lucenay as Pierre de Breschard de Villars , † January 17, 1308 in Paris ) was a French clergyman, legal scholar, Bishop of Auxerre and Chancellor of France .

life and work

Belleperche studied between 1270 and 1280 with the canon Raoul d'Harcourt in Orléans . After graduating, Belleperche worked as a law teacher in Orléans for around 15 years. Around 1296 he resigned his teaching post to become clericus regis of King Philip the Fair of France . He was then a member of the French Parliament . On behalf of the king and in the service of the French administration, Belleperche made numerous trips during these years, including to the Auvergne , the Vermandois , Lyon , Lausanne and Arras . From 1299 he was Canon of Bourges , as the French King's envoy to the Pope, he was Canon of Chartres from 1303 . From 1305 he was cathedral dean of Paris. From 1306 until his death Belleperche was Bishop of Auxerre , from 1306 to 1307 also Chancellor of France .

Belleperche is one of the most important French commentators alongside Jacques de Révigny . Belleperche attached great importance to penetrating the spirit of Roman law and interpreting the sources in this sense. He expressed this request in his numerous writings such as his Quaestiones et distinctiones or the Lectura super Codice .

Works

  • Quaestiones et decisiones aureae, singulares et penitus divinae , 1607

literature

  • Stefanie Langer: Legal itineraries - life paths of well-known European lawyers from the 11th to the 18th century . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-36342-3 , p. 72-75 .
  • Friedrich Carl von Savigny : System of today's Roman law, Volume VI . Veit, Berlin 1847, p. 27 .
  • Kees Bezemer: Pierre de Belleperche - Portrait of a legal puritan . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-465-03436-0 .
  • Félix Lajard: Pierre de Belleperche, Jurisconsult Histoire in Histoire littéraire de la France . Tome 25 (1869)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langer, p. 72
  2. ↑ Lajard, S. 355th
predecessor Office successor
Pierre de Mornay Bishop of Auxerre
1306–1307 		Pierre de Grez
personal data
SURNAME Belleperche, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellapertica, Petrus de (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French legal scholar, clergyman, bishop and chancellor of France
DATE OF BIRTH around 1250
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucenay
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1308
Place of death Paris