Philippe de Rémi (died 1296)

Philippe de Beaumanoir or Philippe de Rémi ( 1247-1250 *, † June 7, 1296 at Castle Moncel ) was a royal officials in medieval France and Legist.

He was a younger son of the poet Philippe de Rémi, who had already held office as royal bailiff in Gâtinais. From his father Beaumanoir only received a small inheritance, which is why he took a degree in law at the University of Orléans in order to qualify for a career in the royal administration.

From 1279 to 1283 Beaumanoir served as Bailiff in Clermont -en- Beauvaisis, 1284-1287 Seneschal of Poitou and to 1288 in Saintonge. After a diplomatic mission in Rome in 1289, he was appointed Bailiff of Vermandois and 1291 Touraine. From 1292 until his death he held the Balliage of Senlis.

He died in his castle he built Moncel and was buried in a church in Compiegne. Moncel ( at Pontpont, Dép. Oise River ) went to his death in the possession of the crown above, where King Philip the Fair einrichtete an abbey of the Poor Clares.

Work

Beaumanoir began in 1280 with the written fixation of the customary rights of his office area in Beauvaisis. In 1283 the completed work entitled Coutumes you Beauvaisis ( " habits Beauvaisis " ) he held in 70 chapters, including his experiences in his office determined and described an ideal image of a royal Regional officials whose personal qualities and professional training. More than just a mere collection of customary laws, this work is a genuine right textbook. This occurs although Beaumanoir as an advocate of social peace secured northern French customary law, but also can be very time of his strong influences of Roman law, particularly in contract law and litigation to.

The Coutumes you Beauvaisis among the best known and most important of the written down in the 13th century legal collections in France. On the basis of the "common benefit" it could soon be merged with the Coutumes de Paris one of the first national law works for France.

It was first published in 1690 by La Chaumassière and served Montesquieu, the Beaumanoir as a " light of his time," praised several times as a reference.