Guillaume Court (died 1361) was a French Cistercian theologian and Cardinal. He was briefly

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, and then bishop of Albi, in 1337, but only for a year, as Pope Benedict XII shortly elevated him to the cardinalate. He was the nephew of Benedict, who as Jacques Fournier had been a

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active in hunting

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in south-west France; and in any case was a countryman and supporter in these activities. Subsequently he investigated several cases of

Franciscan spirituals The Fraticelli (Italian for "Little Brethren") or Spiritual Franciscans opposed changes to the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty, and regarded the wealth of the Church as scandalous, and that of individual church ...

under suspicion. The major work ''Liber secretorum eventuum'' of Joannes de Rupescissa was written to his order. In decisions of an Avignon theological tribune he headed in 1354, Joannes de Rupescissa was cleared;

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and Francis of Arquata were condemned and burned.NOT BORED! is an autonomous, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published journal
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retrieved: 2016-10-22; see also (German).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Court, Guillaume 1361 deaths French Cistercians 14th-century French cardinals Cardinal-bishops of Frascati Bishops of Albi Bishops of Nîmes Cardinal-nephews Avignon Papacy Year of birth unknown