Jean Lemoine
Jean Lemoine (* 1250 in Crécy -en- Ponthieu; † August 22, 1313 in Avignon ) was a cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate to King Philip IV the Fair; He is the founder of the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine in Paris.
After he had completed his studies in theology at the University of Paris, he went on a trip to Rome, where he soon got access to the Rota. He wrote a much-acclaimed commentary on the sixth book of the Decretals, the 1294 Cardinal Purple brought him.
Pope Boniface VIII sent him in 1302 as his legate to France, where he should end the disputes between France and the Pope after the publication of the Bull Unam Sanctam, a task to which he nachkam with so much skill that he is the benevolence of the King acquired without the Pope's to lose. His efforts to move the king to give way to avoid excommunication, but failed.
He donated to the Notre Dame Cathedral, in the nave and in the vicinity of the choir chapel, called Autel of paresseux ( Altar of the Lazy ), bought in 1303 the Augustinians their location in the city from, and founded the later for a hundred fellows after him named Collège.
1305 he participated in the conclave in Perugia in part, in which Clement V was elected, and followed him to Avignon, where it took his residence. Cardinal Lemoine died here in 1313, his body was taken to Paris, where he was buried in the chapel of the Collège.
Cardinal Jean Lemoine defined as the first which is important for criminal cases the presumption of innocence and also spoke in favor of the central defendants right of a fair hearing, which he founded a theological fact that God created Adam and Eve had given the opportunity, prior to the date of the judgment of expulsion from to justify paradise for the eating of the forbidden fruit ( 1 Moses 3/11-13 ): " And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked Have you eaten, you should from the tree of which I commanded thee not eat of it? " The man said, " The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate. " And the Lord God said to the woman, "Why did you do that? " The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and so I ate. "
His brother André Lemoine, Bishop of Noyon, who died in 1315, was buried in the same grave. The double epitaph this was the end of the 18th century still exist.