Petrus Augustodunensis

(Bertrandus, Nivernensis)

Biography

• born in Annonay (Diocese Vienne) as son of the doctor Mattheus Bertrandus.
• studied in Orleans.
• taught in Avignon, Montpellier, Orleans and Paris.
• Preacher and Librarian, Canonicus and Dean in Puy.
• 1320: Bishop of Nevers.
• 1325: Bishop of Autun.
• 20^th December 1331: Cardinal Priest.
• Died on the 24^th June 1349 in Pujault.

Activities as Canonist

• De jurisdictione ecclesiastica et saeculari
• De origine jurisdictionis
• Super Clementinis
• Lectura in decretales
• Lectura in Sextum
• Tabula super decretum

Editions and Sources

• De jurisdictione ecclesiastia, Johann Philippi, Paris 1496.
• Miscellanea, Paris-Speyer, 1360-1370, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1349.

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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, pp.235-236.