Pierre de Fontaines

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Pierre de Fontaines († after 1289) was a royal office holder in medieval France and a lawyer .

Fontaines is mentioned several times between the years 1253 and 1289 as Bailli des Vermandois and as a member of the Paris Parliament, the highest judicial body of the French crown. Joinville ( Vie de Saint Louis ) reported that Fontaines was one of the legal advisers of King Louis the Saint , whom he advised on his court days under the Oak of Vincennes .

In 1254, at the request of the king, Fontaines began drafting the Conseil à un ami , a collection of customary laws that he completed in 1258. This work was presumably intended to serve as a legal textbook for the heir to the throne, Ludwig , in which Fontaines uses concrete examples from the administration of his Balliage to show that one cannot follow written common law or actual customary law (French: Coutumes ). Rather, Fontaines advocated a stronger application of Roman law , especially the second and third books of the Codex Iustinianus , as an alternative to the Coutumes .

Fontaine's work, along with the Établissements de Saint Louis , the Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Beaumanoir and the Livre de Jostice et de Plet , is one of the great legal books that recorded customary law in France in the 13th century.

literature

  • Q. Griffiths: New Men among the Lay Counselors of Saint Louis' Parlement in Medieval Studies, 32 (1970)
  • Paul Ourliac and Jean-Louis Gazzaniga: Histoire du droit privé français de l'an mil au Code civil (Paris 1985)