Bernard de Castanet [SEP] position held
Bernard de Castanet
Bernard de Castanet (c. 1240 – 14 August 1317) was a French lawyer, judge, diplomat, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Castanet was not a Dominican, though he had an excellent relationship with the order of the Preachers and occasionally exercised the office of inquisition as a bishop of Albi and a representative of the inquisitor of Carcassonne.
Early life.
Castanet was probably born in or next to Montpellier, on the Mediterranean coast of the Midi, and obtained a law
(2000), "Les Albigeois et la procédure inquisitoire. Le procès pontifical contre Bernard de Castanet, évêque d'Albi et inquisiteur (1307-1308)", "Heresis", 33, 2000, p. 7-48, available online.
- Julien Théry (2003), "Fama, enormia. L'enquête sur les crimes de l'évêque d'Albi Bernard de Castanet (1307-1308). Gouvernement et contestation au temps de la théocratie pontificale et de l'hérésie des bons hommes", thèse de doctorat en Histoire, Faculté