Simon of Cramaud
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Jules Eugène Lenepveu
Simon de Cramaud (c. 1345 – 19 January 1423, in
Great Western Schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.[1]
Biography
Simon was born before 1360 near
Diocese of Poitiers
.
Cramaud was a prominent figure in the struggles of the fourteenth-century church, and a partisan of the
Gregory XII and Benedict XIII, thus securing the election of Alexander V. At the Council of Constance, he was largely responsible for the success of its election method, which granted a vote to certain national delegates along with the cardinals. He is considered by some[2] to be a precursor to both theological and political Gallicanism. Simon died on 19 January 1423. He was buried at the Poitiers Cathedral.[1]
Works
His treatise De substraccione obediencie (1397), offering multiple lines of reasoning for bringing the Schism to an end, was edited by Howard Kaminsky in 1984. Simon argued that Benedict's followers could withdraw obedience to compel him to seek a solution to the Schism.
Notes
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Simon of Cramaud". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.- Bruno W. Häuptli (2004). "Simon von Cramaud". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 23. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1389–1391. ISBN 3-88309-155-3.
- Kaminsky, Howard, Simon de Cramaud and the Great Schism (New Brunswick, NJ) 1983.
- Kaminsky, Howard. "The Early Career of Simon De Cramaud". Speculum, vol. 49, no. 3, 1974, pp. 499–534., www.jstor.org/stable/2851753.
- Simon de Cramaud, De substraccione obediencie, ed. Howard Kaminsky, Cambridge, MA: the Medieval Academy of America, 1984.
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