Guillaume Durand (bishop)

See also: Guillaume Durand (homonymy)

Not to confuse with: Guillaume Durand (12. - 1330), its nephew and successor as bishop of Mende. ---- Guillaume Durand , born towards 1230 close to Laugh, dead on November 1st 1296, known as the Spéculateur , in Latin " Speculator ", in reference to its " Speculum judiciale "

He taught the right to Modena, then with Rome, for Gregoire X the inheritance of Saint-Pierre managed, but excited a revolt by its rigor and was seen constrained to leave the Italy; it returned in France and obtained the évêché of Mende (1287).

It had composed of the works which had an extraordinary vogue with the Middle Ages:

the Speculum judiciale ( Miroir of the Right ), which was worth to him its nickname of Spéculateur ;
the Rationale divinorum officiorum , one of the first books which were printed (Mainz, 1459).

Joseph-Victor the Clerk devoted an erudite note in the to him literary Histoire of France .

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