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Geoffroy de Bar (in Latin: Gaufridus de Barro) or Barbeau, of Burgundy, was a French cardinal and member of the Roman Curia. He died in 1287.

Early career

Geoffroy was Dean of the Church of S. Quentin en Vermandois (Picardy).^[1] The King of France was the Patron,^[2] and had the right of appointment of Canons. In 1263 he is attested as Chaplain of the Bishop of Paris,^[3] and he was also Canon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. He became friends with Robert de Sorbon, a fellow Canon of Paris and founder of the Collège de Sorbonne, and on 29 September 1270 he was named heir of Robert de Sorbon in his Will.^[4] In November 1274, when he was Dean of the Cathedral of Paris,^[5] he in turn gave all the property he inherited from Robert de Sorbon to the Congregatio pauperum Magistrorum Parisius studentium in Theologica Facultate.^[6]

On 5 August 1279, he was Dean of Paris when he was appointed by Cardinal Simon de Brion, the Apostolic Legate, along with Gervais de Clinchamp, a Canon of Paris, to investigate a dispute at the University of Paris, between the Regent Masters in the Faculty of Arts on the one hand, and the Masters in Canon Law and Masters in Medicine on the other. The two appointees were to take testimony, employing canonical penalties for non-cooperation if necessary. They transmitted their findings under seal to the Cardinal Legate.^[7]

Cardinalate

He was created cardinal-priest by Pope Martin IV (Simon de Brion) in the Consistory of 12 April 1281, and assigned the title of Santa Susanna.^[8]

On 30 April 1283, he was granted control over the Hospice of S. Andrew next to S. Maria Maggiore.^[9] In September 1283 he was appointed by Pope Martin as a member of an examination committee concerning the election and credentials of the Abbot-elect of S. Pietro de Montecornaro.^[10] It was in 1283 as well, that John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his campaign against pluralism in benefices in general, and those of Tedisius de Camilla in particular, attempted to engage the influence of Cardinal Geoffrey at the Papal Court on his behalf.^[11] He was unsuccessful.

On 5 May 1284, he was one of the cardinals who subscribed to the Bull of Pope Martin IV, which granted the Kingdom of Aragon to Charles of Anjou, son of King Philip III of France.^[12] In 1285, he secured for his nephew, Nicolas de Bar, the diocese of Mâcon.^[13]

He died in 1287.^[14]

References

^ in 1268: Jean Roy, Nouvelle histoire des cardinaux françois Tome IV (Paris: Poincot 1787), p.1, 5, and 23. Jacques Longueval, Histoire de l'Eglise gallicane, Tome 7 (Paris: chez Francois Montalant 1734), pp. 469-470.
^ Ch. Gomart, L'Eglise de Saint-Quentin I (Paris 1834), pp. 148-165; 191-193. It seems as though residence was required of the Dean, and thus Geoffroy de Bar would have had to vacate the office on becoming an official in the Church of Paris; see. Gomart, p. 370-372.
^ François Duchesne, Histoire de tous les Cardinaux François de naissance (Paris 1660), pp. 304-305; Roy, 5-8, 21.
^ Mémoires du sire de Joinville, ou Histoire de S. Louis IX, écrite par Jean, sire de Joinville... enrichie de nouvelles observations et dissertations par Charles Du Fresne, sieur Du Cange (London-Paris 1785), pp. 165-169. Gerardus Dubois, Historia Ecclesiae Parisiensis II (Paris 1710), p. 416.
^ Registres de Martin IV, no. 384, p. 157.
^ Luca d' Achery, Veterum aliquot scriptorum Spicilegium IX (Paris 1668), 247-248 and 249. Palémon Glorieux, Aux Origines De La Sorbonne II: Le Cartulaire de la Sorbonne (Paris: Vrin 1965), no. 360, pp. 431-434 (25 September 1279).
^ Henri Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis I (Paris 1889), no. 490 (August 5, 1279), p. 575; no. 493 (October 19, 1279), p. 577.
^ Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi Tomus I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913) p. 10. Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie delle' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa II (Rome 1793), p. 25, reports that he had been Bishop of Evreux; there was a Geoffrey de Bar, Bishop of Evreux, from 1298-1299, obviously not the same person; cf. Eubel, p. 234. Titular Church of S. Susanna (G-Catholic).
^ Registres de Martin IV (Paris 1901), no. 324, p. 139.
^ Registres de Martin IV (Paris 1901), no. 397, p. 162-163 (24 September 1283).
^ Registrum Johannis Peckham II, pp. 540-541 no. CCCCXIX. M. M. Sheehan, "Archbishop John Pecham's Perception of the Papacy," The Religious Roles of the Papacy: Ideals and Realities 1150-1300 (ed. Christopher Ryan) (Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 1989), 299-320, at pp. 312-313. Tedisius was a papal Chaplain, a relative of Pope Adrian V, and former household clerk of King Henry III.
^ Registres de Martin IV (Paris 1901), no. 580-581, pp. 295 and 297. His subscription reads, "Ego Gaufridus, tituli sancte Susanne presbiter cardinalis."
^ Palémon Glorieux, La littérature quodlibétique de 1260 à 1320, Vol. 1 (Le Saulchoir, 1929), p. 230.
^ Ciaconius-Olduin (II, 243) states that he is commemorated in the Necrologium Ecclesiae Parisiensis on 21 August; however, in the Obituarium of the Church of Paris on 21 August, the commemoration is that of Geoffrey, Count of Brittany, son of King Henry II of England, not Geoffroy de Bar: Guérard, Cartulaire de Notre Dame de Paris IV (1850), 133. Gerardus Dubois, Historia Ecclesiae Parisiensis II (Paris 1710), p. 572, quotes the Necrology of the Church of Paris, saying that Gaufridus de Barro died XIX. Kalend. Septembr. (14 August).

Bibliography

Alphonsus Ciaconius (ed. Augustinus Olduin), Vitae et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et S.R.E. cardinalium Tomus II (Rome 1677).
Jean Roy, Nouvelle histoire des cardinaux françois Tome IV (Paris: Poincot 1787).
Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi Tomus I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913).
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Cardinali di curia e familiae cardinalizie 2 vols. (Padova: Antenore, 1972).
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, La vita quotidiana alla corte dei papi nel Duecento (Roma: Laterza, 1996).