About Guillaume Court
Lived 1350 – 1361 (aged 10–11). Guillaume Court was a French catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Guillaume Court (died 1361) was a French Cistercian theologian and Cardinal.
He was briefly bishop of Nîmes, and then bishop of Albi, in 1337, but only for a year, as Pope Benedict XII shortly elevated him to the cardinalate. He was the nephew of Benedict, who as Jacques Fournier had been a bishop of Mirepoix active in hunting heresy in south-west France; and in any case was a countryman and supporter in these activities.
Subsequently he investigated several cases of Franciscan spirituals under suspicion. The major work Liber secretorum eventuum of Joannes de Rupescissa was written to his order. In decisions of an Avignon theological tribune he headed in 1354, Joannes de Rupescissa was cleared; John of Castillon and Francis of Arquata were condemned and burned.
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Who was Guillaume Court?
Catholic cardinal
When was Guillaume Court born?
Guillaume Court was born in 1350 in France.
When did Guillaume Court die?
Guillaume Court died on 12 June 1361 in Avignon.
What was Guillaume Court's occupation?
Guillaume Court was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
What nationality was Guillaume Court?
Guillaume Court was French.
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