Hugues Michel de Besançon

Hugues Michel de Besançon
Bishop of Paris
Hugues' sigil
In office1326 - 1332
PredecessorÉtienne de Bouret
SuccessorGuillaume de Chanac
Other postsDoctor of law
Canon and cantor of Paris
Personal details
Died1332 (1333)

Hugues Michel de Besançon (died 1332) was Bishop of Paris from 1326 until his death.[1]

Life

He was born in Besançon. He was a doctor of law and canon and cantor of Paris before being elected bishop in 1326.[2][3]

In 1326 Hugues and Guillaume de Laudun, Archbishop of Vienne, issued a pardon for the flemish[3][4]

In 1329 he supported John XXII in his opposition to Michael of Cesena and his views.[3][4]

In 1330 he came into conflict with the University of Paris. This is because Hugues fined a student for rape and the university objected that the bishop didn't have the right to meddle with university affairs, as he had sworn not to do so, thus making him a perjurer. John XXII favoured the bishop in the dispute and annulled the oath, while decreeing that the fined money be distributed to poor students.[2][3]

He died the 29th of July 1332.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Gams, Pius Bonifacius (1857). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae. Internet Archive. Graz Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. p. 596.
  2. ^ a b c Jaunay, Louis Auteur du texte (1884). Histoire des évêques et archevêques de Paris / par Louis Jaunay,... pp. 196–201.
  3. ^ a b c d e Sainte-Marthe, Scévole de (1744). Gallia christiana, in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa: qua series et historia archiepiscoporum, episcoporum et abbatum Franciæ vicinarumque ditionum ab origine ecclesiarum ab [!] nostra tempora deducitur, & probatur ex authenticis instrumentis ad calcem appositis (in Latin). ex Typographia regia. pp. 127–129.
  4. ^ a b c Richard, Charles-Louis (1827). Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique, canonique, géographique et chronologique des sciences ecclésiastiques ... (in French). Méquignion fils ainé. p. 34.