Hugues of Burgundy

Hugues of Burgundy , so known under the name of Hugues de Die or Hugues de Romans, (towards 1040 - † Suze in Piedmont the October 7th 1106) was a man of the church French which was bishop of Die, archbishop of Lyon and papal legate.

Biography

Its origin is not clear: it seems to be native of Romans, or at least of the diocese of Vienna. Also presented like a nephew of the duke Hugues Ier of Burgundy, he is probably the brother of Guigues, abbot of Island-Bores, and the uncle of Hugues, prior clunisien of Saint-Marcel-the-Trawl-net. He is in any case chamarier of the chapter cathédral of Lyon in October 1073, at the moment when the legate Gerard, cardinal bishop of Ostie, substitutes it for Lancelin, bishop of Die, which he has just deposited for Simonie. He then will be made order and devote bishop to Rome (2nd Sunday of Lent 1074) where he attends the council of March 1074. It is during the following Roman council, in February 1075 (when the decree against the laic nominations is published in addition), that it is named Légat in Burgundy and France.

He thus applies the precepts of the pope Gregoire VII to several levels:

  • with the local plan, it endeavors to make regulate said and first steps, and to improve quality of the clergy, the development of the regular canons supports.
  • in the plan of the high clergy, it joins together a series of councils where it diffuses the Gregorian decrees and fights in way instransigeante against the laic nomination. Bishops are deposited (in Clermont, in Tours) where their election is broken (in Chartres, in Châlon-sur-saône). The archbishops of Direction and Bourges are temporarily suspended in 1078, and Hugues endeavors to obtain the deposition of the archbishop of Rheims Manassès (effective in 1080).
Its action is parallel to that of the other large Gregorian legate in the West of France, Amat d' Oloron.

Through his action often considered to be radical, Hugues seeks, like Gregoire VII, to completely redefine the place of the church in the medieval company by releasing it from the feudal bonds (the majority of the bishops control a county, and are as such of the wheels of the government of the kingdom of France). The king of France, the archbishop of Rheims, the duke of Aquitaine sometimes blocked his action. Engaged in a long fight against the emperor Henri IV, Gregoire VII itself which was to spare them not to open a " second front" , thus the action of its legate of 1077 to 1080 moderated, while associating to him in particular as legate Hugues de Semur, abbot of Cluny.

In 1083, died of Jubin or Gébuin, which had obtained the title of primacy of Gaules, it succeeds to him (until its death in 1106). He endeavors to make correspond this primatie new to real capacities, from a centralizing point of view, contrary to the simply honorary direction that the Church finally gave to the Lyons primatie. But it falls in disgrace under pontificate from Victor III (Didier, abbot of the Mount-Cassin), which excommunicates it just as Richard, papal legate and abbot of Saint-Victor of Marseilles, with the council of Bénévent (August 1087).
Under Urbain II (1088-1099), it finds its capacities of legate, treating in particular question of the royal adultery of Philippe 1 {{er}} which removed Bertrade de Monfort to live with. In October 1094, it is under its presidency that the council of Autun, joined together with its request, excommunicates the king of France, Excommunication confirmed by the pope himself with Clermont in 1095; the prohibited is thrown on the kingdom of 1096 to 1104.
Badly accepted by the clergy of France anxious to preserve its autonomy, the authority of the primacy (who rested on the capacities of the legate) crumbles with the election of the pope Pascal II in 1099.
Untiring traveller, after a pilgrimage in Compostelle (1095), Hugues does that of Holy Land (1101-1103). He dies on October 6th, 1106 with Suze, on the road of the council of Guastalla.

Councils joined together by the Hugues legate of Die-Lyon

  • Handle, Dijon, Clermont (August 7th, 1076)

  • Autun (Sept. 1077)
  • Poitiers (janv. 1078), stopped by the duke of Aquitaine
  • 1079: Troyes, prevented by the king
  • 1080: Lyon, Avignon, Toulouse
  • 1081: Bordeaux, Holy, Issoudun
  • 1082: Meaux
  • 1094: Autun

External bonds

  • Its biography page 8 (pdf)

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