Gasbert de Valle
Gasbert de Valle or of the Valley (born in 1297 in the Quercy - died on January 1st 1347 with Avignon) was a French monk of the Moyen-âge, which was bishop or Archevêque of Marseilles (1319 - 1323), of Arles (1323 - 1341), then of Narbonne (1341 - 1347). From 1316, it exerted various functions with the pontifical Cour of Avignon, under pontificates of Jean XXII, Benoît XII and Clément VI.
Biography
According to the genealogy of the family Of Servant of Réganhac, established by Jean-Hugues de Réganhac and his grandfather, Gasbert de Valle seems the fifth child of Pierre de Valle and Marie Duèze, who was not other than the sister of the pope Jean XXII.
Before the rise in Jean XXII with papacy the August 7th 1316, Gasbert belonged to its house.
Two days after his crowning, the pope conferred to him at the same time the parish church of Bovenac to the Diocèse of Narbonne and a Canonicat of the Cathédrale of Meaux, by attesting his quality of familiar (“ familiari nostro ”). He gave him then the Archidiaconé of Cahors. Soon it made it its treasurer, titrates that it exchanged later for that of Camerlingue, that it preserved all the pontificate of Jean XXII.
The June 13rd 1317, starting from the suspect death (attack which would have in fact concerned the pope) of the cardinal Jacques of Via, his/her brother, it had the administration of the church of Avignon which the pope retained with his hand, without naming there of holder, with the title and the capacities of vicar-general of évêché. Actually, there was not an other bishop of Avignon to only hanging him the eighteen years of the reign of Jean XXII.
It was named bishop of Marseilles the September 12th 1319.
Actually, the new prelate lived Avignon much more and controlled his diocese by vicar-generals.
The August 26th 1323, it was named archbishop of Arles. It accepted the Pallium the September 8th and made homage between the hands of the king Charles IV '' Beautiful the '' the March 8th 1324. It then had more facility to control its diocese, while continuing to live Avignon and to exert the same functions there.
In 1326 and 1337, it chairs the two councils of Saint Ruf.
The October 2nd 1341, it is named archbishop of Narbonne under the reign of the pope Benoît XII.
The October 12th 1342, it buys a house with Toulouse, close to the Faculty of Law, to found a college there in order to receive schoolboys of its kind who would study in this city. The March 13rd 1343, it founds the Collège of Narbonne, in the honor of the Holy-Virgin Marie, the Apôtres Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul and of Saint-Trophime, owner of the church of Arles. It orders that twelve schoolboys studying with the Université of Toulouse there would be nourished and maintained.
Gasbert de Valle was the Camérier September 18th 1319 at January 1st 1347 of the Pape S Jean XXII, Benoît XII and Clément VI.
It accepted all the orders, before being made cardinal.
He died on January 1st 1347 with Avignon. He had made build one mausolé in the Église Saint-Trophime of Arles but was buried with Narbonne.
Bibliography and Sources
- Guillaume Lafon, History of the archbishops of Narbonne (handwritten of the XVIIIe century)
- Abbot J-H Albanes, Armorial and Sigillographie of the Bishops of Marseilles , Marseilles 1884, pp. 65-66
- Edmond Alba, Prelates originating in Quercy , in Annals of Saint Louis of the French, 1905
- Bernard Guillemain, pontifical court of Avignon 1309-1376 - Study of a company , 807 p., Editions De Boccard, 1966
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