Supplicatio of Cardinal Gebennensis
to Urban VI (June/July 1378), requesting a provision

:

J. H. Albanés and Ulysse Chevalier (editors) Gallia Christiana Novissima: Marseille (Valence 1899) pp. 368-369:

Sanctissimo Domino Nostro [Urbano VI]:

Intellecto quod Episcopus Grassensis [Aimar de la Voulte] translatus fuerat ad ecclesiam Massiliensem, quia pro Episcopo J. Bethlehemitano orator ad ostium pontificie beatitudinis repetitis vicibus pulsavit ut ad vacantem ecclesiam Sancti Pauli transferretur, fuitque primus qui vacationem ecclesienunciavit pontifici , pulsat iterum cum omni humilitate ut antiquitati J. Bethlehemitani episcopi consolatio aliqua, saltem supplicantis intuitu, prebeatur, providendo ei de ecclesia prefata, vel de predicta Grassensi ecclesia nunc vacante. Scriptum manu mea, hac die Sabbati. Vester humilis Gabennensis.

 

[Vatican Archives, Liber secundus de Schismate, Pluteus LIV, 15, folio 30]

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The vacant see was Saint-Paul-trois-chateaux (Tricastrensis), caused by the death of Bishop Raymond Gaufridi de Castellane. Pope Clement VII filled the vacancy on November 10, 1378 with the provision of Ademar de la Roche, OP, Bishop of Bethlehem. There was no J. Bethlenemitani. Either there was a copyist error, or the entire document is a forgery, intended to prove by documentary evidence that Clement VII had recognized Urban VI. The weakness of the reason for the supplication suggests the latter.

 

November 14, 2013 5:02 PM

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