Under Henry III a Sort of Calvinistic republic was installed there. Montpellier, into which Calvinism was introduced in February, 1560, by the pastor, Guillaume Mauget, was much troubled by the wars of religion. At the request of King Francis I, who pleaded the epidemics and the ravages of the pirates which constantly threatened Maguelonne, Paul III transferred the see to Montpellier (March 27, 1536). He caused the city to be surrounded by ramparts, in order that the scholars might work there in safety and finally he caused a large canal to be begun by which Montpellier might communicate with the sea. Germain, and came himself to Montpellier to see the new church (January 9-March 8, 1367). In 1364 he caused the foundation at Montpellier, of a Benedictine monastery under the patronage of St. Urban V (Guillaume de Grimoard) had studied theology and canon law at Montpellier and was crowned pope by Cardinal Ardouin Aubert, nephew of Innocent VI, and Bishop of Maguelonne from 1352 to 1354 hence the attachment of Pope Urban for this diocese which he favored greatly. Jaime III of Majorca sold Montpellier to Philip VI (1349) and the city, save for the period from 1365 to 1382, was henceforth French. Berenger de Fredol, Bishop of Maguelonne, ceded Montpellier to Philip IV (1292). In 1282 the King of Majorca paid homage to the King of France for Maguelonne. In July, 1204, Montpellier passed into the hands of Peter of Aragon, son-in-law of the last of the Guillems Jaime I, son of Peter II, united the city to the Kingdom of Majorca. Clement IV reproached (1266) Bishop Berenger de Fredol with causing to be struck in his diocese a coin called “Miliarensis”, on which was read the name of Mahomet in fact at that date the bishop, as well as the King of Aragon and the Count of Toulouse, authorized the coinage of Arabic money, not intended for circulation in Maguelonne, but to be sold for exportation to the merchants of the Mediterranean. In 1215 Innocent III gave the countship of Melgueil in fief to the Bishop of Maguelonne, who thus became a temporal lord.įrom that time the Bishop of Maguelonne had the right of coinage. Urban II charged the Bishop of Maguelonne to exercise the papal suzerainty, and he spent five days in this town when he came to France to preach the Crusade. In 1085 Pierre, Count of Substantion and Melgueil, became a vassal of the Holy See for this countship, and relinquished the right of nomination to the Diocese of Maguelonne. It is certain that about 990 Ricuin possessed these two villages he kept Montpellieret and gave Montpellier in fief to the family of the Guillems. About 975 they gave them to Ricuin, Bishop of Maguelonne. According to legend, they were in the tenth century the property of the two sisters of St. Near Maguelonne had grown up by degrees the two villages of Montpellier and Montpellieret. The diocese was then transferred to Substantion, but Bishop Arnaud (1030-1060) brought it back to Maguelonne which he rebuilt. Maguelonne was completely destroyed in the course of the wars between Charles Martel and the Saracens. The first historically known Bishop of Maguelonne was Bcetius, who assisted at the Council of Narbonne in 589. It is certain that the tombstone of a Christian woman named Vera was found at Maguelonne Le Blant assigns it to the fourth century. But the chronicler, Bishop Arnaud de Verdale (1339-1352) was ignorant of this alleged Apostolic origin of Maguelonne. Gariel invokes in favor of this tradition a certain manuscript brought from Byzantium. Lazarus and his sisters, was the earliest apostle of Maguelonne. Simon the Leper, having landed at the mouth of the Rhone with St. Local traditions, recorded in 1583 by Abbe Gariel in his “Histoire des eveques de Maguelonne”, affirm that St. A Brief of June 16, 1877, authorized the bishops of Montpellier to call themselves bishops of Montpellier, Beziers, Agde, Lodeve, and Saint-Pons, in memory of the different dioceses united in the present Diocese of Montpellier. When the Concordat of 1802 reestablished this diocese, it accorded to it also the department of Tarn, which was detached from it in 1822 by the creation of the Archdiocese of Albi and from 1802 to 1822, Montpellier was a suffragan of Toulouse. Montpellier, Diocese of (MONTIS PESSIILANI), comprises the department of Herault, and is a suffragan of Avignon.
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