Pierre de Vergne

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Cardinal Pierre de Vergne
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Pierre de la Vergne , also Pierre de Veruche , Pierre Verneyo , Pierre Vernhio , Pierre Veruco , Pierre Verrujo or Pierre Veroche , Latinized Petrus de Vernio (* before 1371; † October 6, 1403 in Avignon ) was a French curia cardinal .

Life

Pierre de Vergne originally came from the Diocese of Tulle . He had studied canon law at the University of Montpellier , where Renoul de Monteruc was his fellow student. On May 30, 1371 he was by Pope Gregory XI. elevated to cardinal status in the consistory . He was a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Santa Maria in Via Lata . In the conflict over the Sachsenspiegel , it was he who in 1372, at the request of the Augustinian hermit Johannes Klenkok , who was de Vergne's teacher, presented a version of the Dekadikon - an indictment of Klenkok - with a request for examination, which was done on April 8th 1374 led to the condemnation of 14 articles in the Sachsenspiegel by the papal bull Salvator humani generis .

De Vergne took part in the conclave of 1378 , the Urban VI. elected Pope, and later in 1378 at the conclave in the election of Clement VII (antipope) . In sources about the time after that he appears as abbot of Montmajour Abbey . In 1398, de Vergne joined the other French cardinals in Roman obedience .

literature

  • André Duchesne , Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois , II, pp. 633-634
  • Lars Rentmeister: The relationship between state and church in the late Middle Ages using the example of the discussion about the Sachsenspiegel . Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016, DNB 1099952247 (Dissertation FU Berlin 2016, 473 pages full text online PDF, free of charge, 473 pages 59.63 MB), p. 265 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Leo : History of the Italian States. 4. Theil (1268-1492) Hamburg, 1830, p. 543.