Étienne de Bouret

Étienne de Bouret
Bishop of Paris
Étienne's effigy
In office1320 - 1325
PredecessorGuillaume de Baufet
SuccessorHugues Michel de Besançon
Other postDean of Chartres
Personal details
Died1325 (1326)

Étienne de Bouret (died 1325) was Bishop of Paris from 1320 until his death.[1]

Life

He was dean of Chartres, before being elected bishop of Paris in 1320.[2][3]

In 1322 he arbitrated the divorce between Charles IV of France and Blanche of Burgundy following the Tour de Nesle affair. After collecting various testimonies he delegated the case to Rome, where John XXII annulled the marriage.[3][4]

In 1325, Étienne assembeled various theologians and after deliberation repealed the condemnation of some of Thomas Aquinas' thesis that was performed by the previous bishops of Paris, namely Étienne Tempier.[2][5][6]

He died in 1325 and was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Victor.[2]

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. 194–196.
  3. ^ a b 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. 125–127.
  4. ^ Mollat, Guillaume (1967). "Jean XXII et Charles IV le Bel (1322-1328)". Journal des Savants. 2 (1): 92–106.
  5. ^ Hissette, Roland (1986). "Aegidii Romani Opera omnia, III, I: Apologia. Édition et commentaire par Robert Wielockx". Revue Philosophique de Louvain. 84 (62): 266–269.
  6. ^ Bianchi, Luca (1995). "Conférence de M. Luca Bianchi". Annuaires de l'École pratique des hautes études. 108 (104): 389–393.