Bernard GUI

Bernard GUI , born Bernard Guidoni (1261 with Royères in the the Limousin - 1331 with Lauroux in the Herault) is a Dominicain French, bishop of Lodève (Herault) and of Tuy (Galicia), like inquisitor.

Biography

He embraces the orders at the nineteen years age (1280) while entering like beginner at the Dominican convent of Limoges. He becomes later senior of Albi ten years (1290), then of Carcassonne, Castres and of Limoges and finally is elected large inquisitor Toulouse (1308 - 1323) (Toulouse, Lauragais, Bas-Quercy). Poor theologist it gives all his measure to his new functions. During its load, it must deal with three great types of Hérésie S of its time: the Catharisme (1307 - 1323), the Valdéisme (1316 - 1322) and the Béguinisme (1319 - 1323). It belongs to the second generation of inquisiteurs who return to the inquisitorial institution his weight and his effectiveness after one period of dispute. He is also the large legal director. He is the author of the first of the handbooks of Enquiry, the Practica Inquisitionis hæreticae pravitatis , written between 1319 and 1323. Considered for the severity of its sentences (and the rigor of its investigations) it makes carry out Pierre Autier, the heart of ultimate resistance cathare (April 1310).

Its promotions as a bishop are granted to him by the pope Jean XXII in reward of the services rendered as a inquisitor.

Hagiographal historian and of its kind, he is the author of many works of great importance including inter alia a famous handbook entitled Practice Inquisitionis hæreticae pravitatis ( Pratique of the enquiry ) bearing on the practices and the methods of the Inquisition to the use of his/her brothers.

Literary works

Flowers of the chronicles
Chronic shortened emperors
Chronic of the kings de France
Catalog of the bishops of Limoges
Treated on the saints of the Limousin
Treated on the history of the Chronic abbey of Saint-Augustin-of-Limoges
of the priors of Chronic Grandmont
of the priors of Chronic Artige
of the bishops of Toulouse
Sanctoral or mirror of the Saints
Life of the Saints
Treated on the soixante-douze disciples and the apostles
Treated on 1 ' time of celebration of the councils
historical Compilation on the order of Dominican the
Practical of the Enquiry

In works of fiction

It is one of the principal characters of the novel the Name of the pink of Umberto Eco in which it seems a fanatic individual, cruel and despotic who opposes the logical reasoning savagely, rather preferring to rely entirely on his inébranlable faith as a God, like with the Croyance S and the Superstition S of his time.

One finds this character in the cinematographic adaption of the novel, in the film the Name of the pink , of Jean-Jacques Annaud, where he is interpreted by the American actor F. Murray Abraham.

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