Pierre de La Jugie

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Representation of Pierre de La Jugie in his pontifical, Narbonne, Saint-Just cathedral, ca.1350

Pierre de La Jugie de La Montre OSBClun (* 1319 in Eyrein ; † November 21, 1376 in Pisa ), a nephew of Pope Clement VI. and cousin of Pope Gregory XI. , was Archbishop of Saragossa , Archbishop of Narbonne and Archbishop of Rouen , Cardinal with the titular church Santa Maria in Cosmedin (1375-1376), called le cardinal de Narbonne .

Life

Pierre de La Jugie was born in the hamlet of La Jugie in the parish of Eyrein near Rosiers-d'Égletons . He was the son of Jacques de La Jugie, who was ennobled in 1338, and Guillaumette Roger, sister of Pierre Roger, later Clement VI. Her brother Guillaume (1317-1374) was made cardinal in 1342. Her brother Hugues was Bishop of Béziers , then Bishop of Carcassonne , her sister was Abbess of La Règle.

Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse Abbey

From Cluny via Saragossa to Narbonne

He joined the Benedictines of Cluny and completed an education in canon law at the University of Orléans , which he left in 1344 with a doctorate.

In 1332 he received the Saint-Pantaléon priory, which was vacant after the departure of Nicolas Roger. He then became prior of Sainte-Livrade in the diocese of Agen before Clement VI. appointed him abbot of Saint-Jean-d'Angély on August 18, 1342 . From February 4, 1343 he was also abbot of Lagrasse .

Clement VI. made him on March 2, 1345 Archbishop of Saragossa , on January 10, 1347 Archbishop of Narbonne .

He pushed ahead with the construction of the Narbonne Cathedral and had part of the archbishop's palace built. He is also at the beginning of the drafting of the "Green Book", an inventory of the rights and property of the Archbishop's Palace.

The reception of Urban V. in Montpellier

At the beginning of January 1367, Pope Urban V , who was on his way to Montpellier, was welcomed in Castelnau-le-Lez by the Narbonne clergy under the leadership of the archbishop. The Pope had left Avignon to celebrate the dedication of the Saint-Germain church, which he himself had commissioned. The church was consecrated on January 30th in the presence of the Pope and the Archbishop celebrated the first mass. On the altar was a silver tabernacle in which an image of the Virgin in gilded silver that the Pope had given was kept.

Illumination in "Miscellanea historica" ​​depicting Urban V and two cardinals on a trip to Rome; the one with a coat of arms is Pierre de La Jugie. Bibliothèque municipale Ceccano, Avignon

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The Archbishop of Rouen becomes a cardinal

The soul of Pierre de La Jugies soars into the sky, fresco in the Cathedral of Narbonne

On August 27, 1375, his cousin Gregory XI appointed him. Archbishop of Rouen, the richest diocese in France, at the consistory of December 20, 1375 cardinal with the titular church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin . He never seems to have been archbishop in Rouen, it is his public prosecutor ( procureur ) Pierre Bégon who is received by the chapter on October 9, 1375.

Pierre de La Jugie accompanied the Pope on his return to Rome. After the papal fleet entered Livorno on November 7, 1376, he had to stay in the port city for a week. Here he wrote his will on November 15th. He died on November 21, 1376 after reaching Pisa.

For a while he was buried in the Cathedral of Pisa and finally buried in Narbonne. He rests in the magnificent marble tomb that he had built in the outer row of the cathedral choir.

literature

  • Marie-Laure Jalabert: Le Livre Vert de Pierre de la Jugie: Une image de la fortune des archevêques de Narbonne au XIVe siècle. Étude d'une seigneurie. Presses universitaires de Perpignan, Perpignan 2009 ( online )
  • François Duchesne : Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois de naissance ou qui ont été promus au cardinalat par l'expresse recommandation de nos roys. Paris 1660.
  • Étienne Baluze : Vitae paparum Avenionensium, sive collectio actorum veterum. Volume 1 and 2. Paris 1693.
  • Auguste de Boyes, François Arbelot: Biography of the Hommes illustres de l'ancienne province du Limousin. Limoges 1854.
  • Honoré Fisquet : La France pontificale. Histoire chronologique et biographique des archevêques et évêques de tous les diocèses de France depuis l'établissement du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours, divisée en dix-sept provinces ecclésiastiques. 1864-1873.
  • Anne-Marie Hayez: Une famille cardinalice à Avignon au XIVe siècle, les la Jugie. Annuaire de la société des Amis du palais des papes, 1980–1981.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Guillaume I. Rogier, † 1313, had married Guillemette de La Montre. The patronymic comes, after Champeval, from Mestrio (Mestre), a toponym near Vedrenne, part of the parish of Égletons, which is a priory of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieuwar . Jean-Baptiste Poulbrière points out that La Mestre or La Montre, a fiefdom, was given to Pierre de La Jugie.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Vincent Tabbagh (ed.): Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae 2 Diocèse de Rouen, Répertoire prosopographique des évêques, dignitaires et chanoines des diocèses de France de 1200 à 1500. Turnhout 1998, p. 447
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g La Jugié, OSBClun., Pierre de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed January 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ When Peter von La Jugie, Archbishop of Saragossa, took the vacant seat of the Archdiocese of Narbonne, Clement VI was. believes that the better candidate would be his cousin Guillaume d'Aigrefeuille .
  5. ↑ In this office he chaired the council of Béziers in 1351, that of Lavaur in 1368 and that of Narbonne in 1374
  6. ↑ Disappointed, Urban V. said to the architect: "I asked for a church to be built and you only built a chapel".
personal data
SURNAME La Jugie, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Jugié, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH 1319
PLACE OF BIRTH Eyrein
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1376
Place of death Pisa