Jean Petit (theologian)

Jean Petit (c. 1364; † July 15, 1411 in Hesdin ) was a French jurist and theologian.

He came from the Pays de Caux, 1385 Maître des Arts and then studied law in Paris and Orléans, then theology. He finished his studies in 1402 with a Master Title.

Jean Petit was one of the most important voices at the Sorbonne, when it came to the consequences of Western Shimas; he participated in the unsuccessful negotiations with Benedict XIII. part, and distinguished himself in the clerical Assembly of the year 1406 by a vehement stance against the policies of the benefice economy and the papal taxation forth.

As a member of the court of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, he was commissioned to defend its 1408 contract murder of Duke Louis of Orléans in court. This plea was known as an apology you Tyrannicide ( Apology of tyrannicide ) and earned him the post of Legal Adviser, but also the moderate opposition parties and the trailer Orléans, later the Armagnacs. He was controlled mainly by Jean Gerson, who had ordered his theses to the legitimacy of tyrannicide in 1414, after Jean Petit's death, at the Council of Constance.

In addition to his legal and theological works Jean Petit stepped out as a writer of poems and stories.