Nicolas de Nonancourt
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Cardinal Nicolas de Nonancourt |
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| Church | San Lorenzo in Damaso |
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| Created Cardinal | 18 September 1294 by Pope Celestine V |
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| Died | 23 September 1299 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Dean of Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris (1288-1294) |
| Education | Degree of Master (Magister) |
| Alma mater | Chancellor, University of Paris |
Nicolas de Nonancourt (born at Nonancourt, at a date unknown; died 23 September 1299, the Feast of Saint Maurice). He was a French university Chancellor, Dean of a Cathedral, and Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Nonancourt was not the family name, derived from an ancient noble family of Paris (as Ferdinand Ughelli supposed); François Duchesne pointed out that there was no such Parisian family. Nonancourt is mentioned in Cardinal Nicolas' memorial inscription as the villa in which he spent many happy days; it is a few miles west of the town of Dreux.
Nicolas had a brother, Magister Petrus Layde, Canon of Evreux. The notion that Nicolas de Nonancourt's family name was Layde (or L'Ayde, or L'Aide) apparently derives from this notice. It is not necessarily the case, however, that Layde was Canon Pierre's surname; it may have been a nickname or sobriquet to distinguish him from another Pierre in the Church of Evreux. Nicolas seems never to have used the name Layde.
Nicolas de Nonancourt was Chancellor of the University of Paris (1284-1288). During his term he preached at least one sermon, the text of which has survived, "Sermo in dominica in Adventu, mag. Nicolai, cancellarii Parisiensis". The extracts of another undated sermon, Laudemus viros gloriosos, in which he deplores the activities of certain persons who were 'fishing in troubled waters', have been published. Nicolas was deeply involved in the conflict between the Regular masters of Theology and the Secular Masters and Canons of Paris. In 1288, he refused to confer the Licenciate in Theology on the Franciscan Giovanni da Morrovalle, despite papal demands.
Dean of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris (1288-1294).
On 18 September 1294 he was created Cardinal Priest by Pope Celestine V and assigned the titular church of San Marcello; then he moved to the titulus of San Lorenzo in Damaso in 1295.
On 21 June 1295, he subscribed the Bull of Boniface VIII granting the Kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia to James, the son of King Pedro, who had been deposed and excommunicated by the pope.
His income was considerable. For the year 1295, as his share from the census alone, he received 1,000 florins, and for the year 1296 9,009 florins and 13 denarii. For the year 1297, he received 9.033 florins, 4 solidi and 4 denarii; and, for the year 1298, 3033 florins 4 solidi and 4 denarii. The income from 1299 was 2050 florins.
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