Johannes Monachus (Lemoine) 



Biography

• came from a village in the Picardy (Diocese Amiens).
• studied in Paris, where he was Canon.
• After his doctorate he went to Rome, was advisor of Philipp II.
• 30^th September 1294: Cardinal Presbyter of S.Marcellini et Petri by Coelestin V.
• 24^th December 1302: Legate in France under Boniface VIII.
• Bishop of Meaux as well as Cancellarius S.R.E. and Legate.
• 22^th August 1313 death (burried at the Le collège du cardinal Le Moine, that he has founded)

Activities as Canonist

• Glossa aurea (Apparatus in librum Sextum)
• Apparatus ad Extravagantes
• Commentarius ad reg. 81 de reg. iur, in 6

Editions and Sources

• Apparatus super Sexto – BSB Clm 6353, midst 14^th Century.
• HÖDL, E: Die Glosse des Johannes Monachus zur Konstitution Super cathedram Bonifaz VIII. (vom 18.02.1300) und deren Kritik durch Petrus de Palude OP (Cod. Vat.lat.869, f.125r-128r, ed.), in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Kanonistische Abteilung, 118/2001, pp.269–305.
• In sextum librum decretalium dilucida commentaria glossa aurea nuncupata, additionibus clarissimi I.C. Philippi Probi Biturici in supremo Parisiensi senatu advocati illustrata, et a plerisque, quibus antea scatebant mendis expurgata, atque suo pristino nitori, quam diligentissime restituta...,Iunta, Venetiis 1585.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, p.191-193.