Peter of Savoy (archbishop)
Peter of Savoy (French: Pierre de Savoie; died November 1332) was a member of the House of Savoy and a prelate of the 14th century.
Biography
Peter was the son of Count
Archbishop of Lyon
In December 1307, Peter was appointed
The war ended with the intervention of the Peter's uncle, Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, who reluctantly sided with the French king to avoid becoming the king's next victim.[5] A treaty was signed on 10 April 1312, by which the archbishop lost control of the administration of justice in Lyon to the king, and was obliged to agree to the incorporation of Lyon into the kingdom of France. A definitive treaty of 4 April 1320 with the new king, Philip V, restored the jurisdiction of the city to the archbishop, but under royal sovereignty. The people of Lyon received several franchises, such as the right to set taxes for the benefit of the city.
However, the king refused the archbishop's demands for compensation for the depredations of the royal troops during the siege, both for their mistreatment of the inhabitants and particularly of the clergy. These were the subject of two written memoranda, one composed by the clerics of Lyon between the opening of the
Also during his term of office Chazeaux Abbey was founded for a community of Poor Clares at Firminy. In 1316, the archbishop saw the election and coronation of Pope John XXII in Lyon.
Family
Peter had an illegitimate son by an unknown mother:
- Jean la Mitre,(d. 1348), "knight and bastard of Savoy", Lord of Cuine, buried at Montmelian[2]
References
- ^ Cox, Eugene L. (1974). The Eagles of Savoy: The House of Savoy in Thirteenth-Century Europe. Princeton University Press. p. 462.
- ^ a b Cox, Eugene L. (1967). The Green Count of Savoy: Amedeus VI and Transalpine Savoy in the Fourteenth-Century. Princeton University Press. p. 14.
- ^ La Savoie aux portes de Lyon au Moyen Age (12ème au 14ème siècle)
- ^ Musée du diocèse de Lyon: Pierre de Savoie
- ^ Carlo Alberto Gerbaix de Sonnaz and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Un incident peu connu de l'histoire de Savoie au commencement du XIVe siècle: le comte Amé V de Savoie & les Savoyards à l'expédition de l'empereur Henri VII de Luxembourg en Italie et à Rome, 1308-1313, (Thonon-les-Bains, A. Dubouloz, 1902), p. 52
- ^ Alexis Charansonnet 2012, § 1, "Les documents du Trésor des chartes comme sources pour l’étude des négociations entre le roi et l'archevêque de Lyon", p. 443.
- ^ Alexis Charansonnet, 2012, § 2, "Enquêtes" sur Lyon? Des objets textuels mal identifiés", p. 443.
Further reading
- Franck Thénard-Duvivier, Images sculptées au seuil des cathédrales. Les portails de Rouen, Lyon et Avignon (XIIIe-XIVe siècle), Mont-Saint-Aignan, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2012, 348 pp. ISBN 9782877755238 (online version), pp. 88-90
- Alexis Charansonnet, "Les tractations du roi, du pape et de l'archevêque concernant le rattachement de Lyon à la France (1311–1312)" in Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte, no 39, 2012, pp. 439-471 ISSN 0937-7743 (online version)