Nicolas de Nonancourt

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Nicolas de Nonancourt
Cardinal-Priest
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Church San Lorenzo in Damaso
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Created cardinal18 September 1294
by Pope Celestine V
Personal details
Died23 September 1299
NationalityFrench
OccupationDean of Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris
(1288-1294)
EducationDegree of Master (Magister)
Alma mater Chancellor, University of Paris

Nicolas de Nonancourt (born at Nonancourt, at a date unknown; died 23 September 1299, the Feast of Saint Maurice). He was a French university Chancellor, Dean of a Cathedral, and Roman Catholic Cardinal. [1]

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Family

Nonancourt was not the family name, derived from an ancient noble family of Paris (as Ferdinand Ughelli supposed); François Duchesne pointed out that there was no such Parisian family. [2] Nonancourt is mentioned in Cardinal Nicolas' memorial inscription as the villa in which he spent many happy days; it is a few miles west of the town of Dreux. [3]

Nicolas had a brother, Magister Petrus Layde, Canon of Evreux. [4] The notion that Nicolas de Nonancourt's family name was Layde (or L'Ayde, or L'Aide) apparently derives from this notice. It is not necessarily the case, however, that Layde was Canon Pierre's surname; it may have been a nickname or sobriquet to distinguish him from another Pierre in the Church of Evreux. Nicolas seems never to have used the name Layde.

Career in Paris

Nicolas de Nonancourt was Chancellor of the University of Paris (1284-1288). [5] During his term he preached at least one sermon, the text of which has survived, "Sermo in dominica in Adventu, mag. Nicolai, cancellarii Parisiensis". [6] The extracts of another undated sermon, Laudemus viros gloriosos, in which he deplores the activities of certain persons who were 'fishing in troubled waters', have been published. [7] Nicolas was deeply involved in the conflict between the Regular masters of Theology and the Secular Masters and Canons of Paris. [8] In 1288, he refused to confer the Licenciate in Theology on the Franciscan Giovanni da Morrovalle, despite papal demands. [9]

Dean of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris (1288-1294). [10]

Cardinal (1294—1299)

On 18 September 1294 he was created Cardinal Priest by Pope Celestine V and assigned the titular church of San Marcello; then he moved to the titulus of San Lorenzo in Damaso in 1295. [11]

On 21 June 1295, he subscribed the Bull of Boniface VIII granting the Kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia to James, the son of King Pedro, who had been deposed and excommunicated by the pope. [12]

Income

His income was considerable. For the year 1295, as his share from the census alone, he received 1,000 florins, and for the year 1296 9,009 florins and 13 denarii. For the year 1297, he received 9.033 florins, 4 solidi and 4 denarii; and, for the year 1298, 3033 florins 4 solidi and 4 denarii. The income from 1299 was 2050 florins. [13]

In 1295, he received a distribution from the contributions of the Comtat Venaissin of 83 livres Tournois, 6 sols, 8 denarii. [14] In the books he is referred to as Nicolaus Parisien(sis). On 10 May 1297 Cardinal Nicolas shared in the money received from the deposition of Cardinals Jacopo and Pietro Colonna; Pope Boniface VIII retained half of their income, the other have was shared among the nineteen cardinals. [15] On 24 June, from the dues paid by the Archbishop of Siena, he received as his share 33 florins, 17 sols. [16] On 12 March 1296, his share from the dues paid by the Abbot of Cluny amounted to 95 livres Tournois, 4 solidi and 9 denarii. [17] At Easter each cardinal received as his share from the dues paid by the Archbishop of Florence the sum of 41 florins and 7 solidi; around the same time, from the Archbishop of Tours, he received 7 livres Tournois, 14 sols, and 11 denarii. [18] At Easter 1296 the Archbishop of Rouen's dues brought him 20 livres Tournois, 14 sols and 9 denarii. [19] At Easter 1298, again from the Archbishop of Tours, he received 25 gold florins, and 11+ sols; at Pentecost, the dues of the Archbishop of Rouen brought him 31 livres Tournois and 5 solidi. [20] On 5 September 1298 he received from the dues of the Abbot of Majoris Monasterii (Marmoutier) in Tours the sum of 11 livres Tournois. [21] There were many other distributions in which he probably participated, though his name does not specifically appear.

Activities

In the winter of 1297/1298 he was appointed Auditor along with Cardinal Jean Le Moine by Pope Boniface in a case involving the Diocese of Lund and the King of Denmark. [22] In March 1298 he was a member of a commission of cardinals who examined the canonical election and character of the Abbot of Gerenrode in the diocese of Halberstadt. [23] On 27 June 1298, he and thirteen other cardinals subscribed the Bull of Boniface VIII in which he ratified the peace between Philip IV of France and Edward I of England. [24] At the same time he was a member of a committee of cardinals who examined the election and the personal character of the Abbot-elect of Majoris Monasterii (Marmoutier) in Tours. [25] In the autumn of 1298 Cardinal Nicolas served on a committee of cardinals who examined the election of the Abbot of S. Geneviève in Paris. [26] On 22 November 1298 he obtained from Pope Boniface for the benefit of the Dean and Chapter of Nôtre Dame de Paris the privilege of naming a suitable person to the office of Tabellio (secretary). [27] On 28 March 1299, Pope Boniface ordered Cardinal Nicolas to investigate the case of a cleric of the diocese of Avranches, and, if appropriate, to dispense him from defects which prevented his ordination as a priest. [28] On 11 May 1299 Pope Boniface notes in a letter that he had just (nuper) appointed Cardinal Nicolas to receive the resignation of the Rector of S. Albano de Bonavalle in Lisieux. On 17 June he was assigned to fill the vacancy of a parish in the diocese of Rouen. [29]

On 20 June 1299 Pope Boniface remarked in a document concerning the case between the Archbishop of Tours and the Bishop of Dol about the rights of the former over the latter, that, after much litigation, he had appointed Cardinal Nicolas as Auditor (Judge) in the case. [30] On 29 July 1299 Cardinal Nicholas was present in the papal palace at Anagni for the resignation of Stoldus of Florence from a church in Pistoria. [31] On 9 August 1299 the Pope remarked that Cardinal Nicolas had been one of the three examiners of the appointment of a new Abbot for the monastery of S. Salvatore in Ferentino. On the same day the Pope noted that Nicolas had carried out the same function for the Abbot of the monastery of S. Ambrose in Milan. [32]

Death, Testament

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Papal Palace, Anagni

Cardinal Nicolas de Nonancourt made his Last Will and Testament in Anagni in 1299, and died on 22 September. [33] According to the Obituarium of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Chapter received 6 ½ livres Parisis in a purse each year, for the land which had been purchased with the Cardinal's money at Andresiacum; likewise there was an annual commemorative distribution of the income of a piece of property which the Cardinal used to have at Laiacum. The Cardinal also left 100 livres Parisis for the fabric of the Church of Paris, as well as one livre for vestments of expensive cloth (diaper) for the Church of Paris. His anniversary was to be observed solemnly, with the Canons in choir or their vicars wearing silken copes at the Vigil and Mass. [34]

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References

  1. ↑ Eubel I, p. 12. Other dates are given in various sources, based on Necrologies, Obituaries, and ecclesiastical commemorations: 8 September (Obituarium Ecclesiae Parisiensis: M. Guerard, Cartulaire de l' Eglise de Notre Dame de Paris IV, p. 143.), 24 September, or 21 November.
  2. ↑ François Duchesne, Histoire de tous les Cardinaux François (Paris 1660), p. 332.
  3. ↑ Roy, p. 6. Redditus (or Editus) est illa, quae Nonancuria villa fertur, ubi cua vigili fecit bona plura. Glorieux, pp. 401-402.
  4. ↑ Martyrology of Evreux: Roy Volume 5, "Nicholas Layde" p. 3. François Duchesne, Preuves de l'Histoire de tous les Cardinaux François (Paris 1660), p. 252.
  5. ↑ H. Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis I, p. xx, n.
  6. ↑ Histoire littéraire de la France Volume 26 (1898), p. 451.
  7. ↑ B. Hauréau, Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque nationale IV (1892), 155-157.
  8. ↑ Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis I, no. 522, pp. 633-634 (1 June 1285).
  9. ↑ Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis II, no. 548 (16 June 1288) and 550 (1 December 1288). Giovanni Mincio da Morrovalle was later elected Minister General of the Franciscans.
  10. ↑ In some papal registers he is called Dominus Nicholaus de Grandicur decanus Parisien. tit. Sancti Laurencii in Damaso. Baumgarten (1898), "Untersuchungen", p. 107. In other places he is called Nicholaus de Nancuria tituli Sancti Laurentii: Kirsch, p. 110.
  11. ↑ Eubel, p. 12, with n. 4.
  12. ↑ Augustus Potthast, Regesta pontificum Romanorum II (Berlin 1875) no. 24106.
  13. ↑ Baumgarten (1898), pp. 130-132.
  14. ↑ Kirsch, p. 97-99.
  15. ↑ Kirsch, p. 102.
  16. ↑ Kirsch, p. 103.
  17. ↑ Kirsch, p. 112-113.
  18. ↑ Kirsch, p. 113-114.
  19. ↑ Kirsch, p. 115.
  20. ↑ Kirsch, p. 120-121.
  21. ↑ Kirsch, p. 124.
  22. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 87-89, no. 2526 (27 March 1298).
  23. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Volume 2, p. 61, no. 2477 (13 March 1298).
  24. ↑ A. Theiner (ed.), Caesaris Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici Tomus 23 (Bar-le-Duc 1871), under year 1298, § 2-6, pp. 231-232.
  25. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 112-113, no. 2564 (21 April 1298).
  26. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, pp. 235-236, no. 2771 (7 November 1298).
  27. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 269, no. 2830.
  28. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 370, no. 2985.
  29. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 484, no. 3208 p. 489, no. 3217.
  30. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, pp. 424-425, no. 3087.
  31. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 493, no. 3225.
  32. ↑ Registres de Boniface VIII Tome 2, p. 467-468, no. 3180.
  33. ↑ Paravicini-Bagliani, pp. 64-65. Eubel, p. 12, says 23 September. The Roman Curia was resident in Anagni from mid-March until the end of September: Potthast, pp. 1985-1990.
  34. ↑ M. Guerard, Cartulaire de l' Eglise de Nôtre Dame de Paris IV, p. 143. Duchesne, Histoire, p. 322.

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