Guillaume de Pierre Godin (Guilhem de Peyre Godin) (c. 1260 – 1336) was a French Dominican theologian, and

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Life

Godin was born in

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and spent his early years in south-west France.Alain Boureau, ''Satan the Heretic: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans'' (2006), p. 17-8. In 1292 he was briefly in Paris, where he was an early opponent of

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. From 1306 he was

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. His work there as lecturer was important in creating the Dominican orthodox Thomist position. On either 23 or 24 December 1312, Godin was named a cardinal by Pope

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. He was Cardinal Priest of

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until sometime after 12 September 1317, when he was transferred to be

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. From 1320 to 1324 Godin was

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in Spain. He was named

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in November 1323 From 1326 he was engaged in demon-hunting episcopal trials in the area of

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and

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. Godin contributed financially to the construction of the nave of the

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in Toulouse. He is represented in a fresco at the Couvent des Jacobins at

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. His coat-of-arms figures in the vaults of the church of Saint Dominique at

. Until the 19th century his coat-of-arms also appeared in the vaults of

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Works

He is now considered the author of the polemical work ''De causa immediata ecclesiasticæ potestatis'', which in the past has been attributed to

Peter Paludanus Peter Paludanus (Petrus de Palude; c. 1275–1342) was a French theologian and archbishop. Biography Paludanus was born in the County of Bresse, Savoy, about 1275. He entered the Dominican Order at Lyon, completed his theological studies at t ...

, now dated to around 1318.PDF
, p. 25, footnote.

References

*''Tractatus de causa immediata ecclesiastice potestatis: The Theory of Papal Monarchy in the Fourteenth Century'' by Guillaume de Pierre Godin (1981), editor William D. McCready *Wouter Goris, Martin Pickavé: ''Die 'Lectura Thomasina' des Guilelmus Petri de Godino (ca. 1260–1336)'', in: J. Hamesse (Ed.): Roma, magistra mundi. Itineraria culturae medievalis. Mélanges offerts au Père L. E. Boyle à l'occasion de son 75e anniversaire III (Textes et études du moyen âge 10/3). Louvain–la–Neuve 1998, 83–109.

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