Bernard Saisset
Bernard Saisset (* around 1232, † 1314), was the first bishop of Pamiers. He became famous for his rivalry with King Philip IV the Fair of France in its conflict with Pope Boniface VIII
Life
Saisset was appointed abbot of Saint -Antonin in Pamiers in 1267. In this position he led a varied history feud with Count Roger Bernard III. of Foix on the common sovereign rights in Pamiers ( paréage ). In 1297 he was finally forced to recognize the Count as co- masters in Pamiers, after King Philip IV had taken the Beautiful repeatedly party for the count.
The resulting hostility Saisset king had a decisive impact on the conflict with Pope Boniface VIII resulted. In 1296 it came between the French king and the pope to a first power struggle that had ignited the taxation of the French clergy by the Crown. To demonstrate its room for maneuver in France had the Boniface VIII established without consultation with the king in Pamiers a new diocese and the king opponents Saisset was appointed to his first bishop.
After a brief relaxation in 1297, the conflict soon broke out of new and more bitter than the Pope in Flanders war open for Count Guido of Flanders took sides. The Pope appointed Saisset to his legate in Flanders. When he openly called for the release of the imprisoned Count of Flanders in this function, the king had a commission form should examine the suspicion of treason against Saisset, who eventually was a French subject. As witnesses it appeared the Counts of Foix and Comminges, the Saisset accused to have prompted a revolt against the crown. Saisset 1301 arrested and put in Senlis before a royal court, where he was accused by the royal council Pierre Flote of heresy.
The Pope, as well as the Archbishop of Narbonne, Gilles Aycelin, protested in vain stand Saisset yes as a bishop outside the secular jurisdiction. Saisset was convicted and sentenced to several years in prison, which he served first in Narbonne. In the spring of 1302 him but the exile transition to Rome was granted. The conflict between King and Pope escalated during which completely and ended in 1303 with the assassination of Anagni and the subsequent commencement of exile of the Catholic Church in Avignon.
Saisset was fully pardoned in 1308 under Pope Clement V. intercession by the French king, which allowed him to return to France. In the same year he joined with the crown from a paréage contract to Les Allemans (now La Tour-du- Crieu ), where a royal vicar took his permanent seat.
Swell
- Chronicon Girardi et de Fracheto innominate ejusdem operis continuation, in: Recueil des Historiens the Gauls et de la France 21 (1840 ), p 19