Gasbert Valle

Gasbert Valle Duval also said Guasbert
Biography
Birth name	Gasbert La Val or Laval
Birth	1297 Quercy
Deaths	1January 1347 Avignon
Priestly Ordination	1316
Last title	Chamberlain under the pontificates of John XXII , Benedict XII and Clement VI
Bishop of the Catholic Church
Bishop of Marseilles
Beginning of the episcopate	1319
End of the episcopate	1323
Predecessor	Raimond Robaudi
Successor	Aymard Amiel
Archbishop of Arles
Beginning of the episcopate	1323
End of the episcopate	1341
Predecessor	Gaillard Saumate
Successor	Jean de Cardona
Archbishop of Narbonne
Beginning of the episcopate	1341
End of the episcopate	1347
Predecessor	Bernard de Farges
Successor	The stone Jugie
Other functions
Religious function
Curate of the parish church of Bovenac the diocese of Narbonne Canon of the cathedral of Meaux Archdeacon of Cahors Director of the church of Avignon
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Gasbert Valle, La Valle and Laval, also called Guasbert Duval (born 1297 in Quercy - died on ¹January 1347 in Avignon ) was a French religious of the Middle Ages , who was bishop or archbishop of Marseille ( 1319 - 1323 ), of Arles ( 1323 - 1341 ), then Narbonne ( 1341 - 1347 ). From 1316 , he held various positions at the Papal Court at Avignon , under the pontificates of John XXII , Benedict XII and Clement VI.

Origins and early years

According to the genealogy of the family valet Rganhac, established by Jean-Hugues de Rganhac and his grandfather ^{The prelate in Avignon}

From 1316 , John XXII had his treasurer, a position that Gasbert shared collegially with Adhemar Amiel .

On 13 June 1317 , from the suspicious death (which would actually attack targeted the Pope) of Cardinal Jacques de Via , his brother ^{Bishop of Marseilles}

He was appointed bishop of Marseille on 12 September 1319 and a few days later, on September 18th 1319 , became chamberlain of the pope, an office he retained under Popes John XXII, Benedict XII and Clement VI until his death, is over 27 years ^, . Like all the chamberlains of the time, he was close to the pope, but was the only one with Stephen Cambarou has to have the technical expertise by its former treasurer .

In reality, the new prelate remained much in Avignon and ruled his diocese through vicars. He surrounded himself with familiar, we know a notary of Pope, Raymond de Laval, who was probably his brother and a nephew, secretary of the Papal Chancery. Later, in 1348 , one of his cousins argued that relationship to obtain a position of scribe .

Archbishop of Arles

On 26 August 1323 , he was appointed archbishop of Arles. He received the pallium on September 8 and did homage in the hands of King Charles IV the Fair on 8 March 1324. He would then find it easier to govern his diocese, while continuing to stay in Avignon and to exercise the same functions.

In 1326 and 1337 , he chaired the two Councils of Saint Ruf , near Avignon.

Archbishop of Narbonne

On 2 October 1341 , he was appointed Archbishop of Narbonne in the reign of Pope Benedict XII.

On 12 October 1342 , he bought a house in Toulouse , near the law school, to found a college to receive his order that school children would go to study in that city. On 13 March 1343 , he founded the college of Narbonne , in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary , the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Trophime , patron of the church of Arles. He ordered that twelve students studying at the University of Toulouse will be fed and maintained.

It also relates a strange story about him that illuminates the ways of the curia of the time. It is said that "for the sins of the flesh committed (sic) to the curia, Gasbert Laval consecrated in 1343 a portion of his fortune to install a new home in the work of penitents who welcomed courtesans and prostitutes willing to repent .

He died on ¹January 1347 in Avignon. He had built a mausoleum in the Church of St. Trophime of Arles but was buried in Narbonne .

Arms

His weapons are, Gules three bars of silver .

References

See also

Bibliography and Sources

• Guillaume Lafon, History of the Archbishops of Narbonne (manuscript of the eighteenth ^century)
• Abbe JH Albanes , and Armorial Sigillography of Bishops of Marseille, Marseille 1884, pp. 65-66
• Edmond Albe , prelates from Quercy, in Annals of St. Louis of the French, 1905
• Bernard Guillemain , the papal court at Avignon 1309-1376 - Study of Society, 807 p., Editions De Boccard, 1966

Internal Links

• Popes of Avignon
• History of Arles in late medieval
• Archbishopric of Arles

External Links

• Jean-Pierre Papon - General History of Provence, page 312; accessed 28 November 2008, here

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• Portal of the late Middle Ages
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