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Bérenger Fredoli
Bérenger Fredoli (Vérune, France, c. 1250 – Avignon, 11 June 1323) was a French canon lawyer and Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati.
Celestine V.
He was canon and precentor of Béziers, secular Abbot of Saint-Aphrodise in the same city, canon and archdeacon of Corbières, and canon of Aix. He later held the chair of canon law at the University of Bologna, and was appointed chaplain to Pope Celestine V, who in 1294 consecrated him Bishop of Béziers.
Boniface VIII
of Albi, for the supply of the army in Flanders.
In 1307, he was accused of murder, pastoral neglect, simony, cruelty in the exercise of justice, and other offenses to the number of forty-two. The case was carried to the Papal Curia by two Canons of Albi, Sicardus Alamani and Bernardus Asturtionis. Pope Clement V assigned the case for judicial inquiry to Cardinal Bérenger Fredoli, who judged that the charges were serious enough to warrant Bishop Castanet's suspension from his temporal and spiritual authority,