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See also: bishop, was See also: abbot of
See also: Saint Antonin de Pamiers in 1268
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Boniface VIII., detaching the city of Pamiers from the diocese of Toulouse in 1295, made it the seat of a new bishopric and appointed Saisset to the see
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Of a headstrong temperament, Saisset as abbot energetically sustained the struggle with the See also: counts of See also: Foix, begun two centuries before, for the lordship of the city of Pamiers, which had been shared between the counts and abbots by the feudal contract of pariage
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The struggle ended in 1297 by an agreement between the two parties as to their See also: common rights, and when the See also: pope raised the excommunication incurred by the count, Saisset absolved him in the refectory of the Dominican monastery in Pamiers (1300)
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Saisset is, however, famous in French See also: history for his opposition to See also: King
See also: Philip IV
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As an ardent Languedocian he hated the French, and spoke openly of the king in disrespectful terms
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But when he tried to organize a general rising of the
See also: south, he was denounced to the king, perhaps by his old enemies the count of Foix and the bishop of Toulouse
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Philip IV. charged See also: Richard Leneveu, archdeacon of Auge in the diocese of See also: Lisieux, and
See also: Jean de Picquigni, See also: vidame of See also: Amiens, to make an investigation, which lasted several months
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Saisset was on the point of escaping to See also: Rome when the vidame of Amiens surprised him by See also: night in his episcopal palace
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He was brought to Senlis, and on the 24th of See also: October 1301 appeared before Philip and his See also: court
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The chancellor, See also: Pierre Flotte, charged him with high treason, and he was placed in the keeping of the archbishop of See also: Narbonne, his metropolitan
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Philip IV. tried to obtain from the pope the canonical degradation of Saisset
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Boniface VIII., instead, ordered the king in See also: December 130I to See also: free the bishop, in See also: order that he might go to Rome to justify himself
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At the same See also: time, he sent the famous bulls Salvator mundi, a sort of repetition of Clericis laicos, and Ausculla fili, which opened a new stage of the See also: quarrel between the pope and king
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In the heat of the new struggle Saisset was forgotten
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He had been turned over in See also: February 1302 into the keeping of Jacques See also: des Normands, the papal See also: legate, and was ordered to leave the See also: kingdom at once
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He lived at Rome until after the incident at Anagni
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In 1308 the king pardoned him, and restored him to his see
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He died, still bishop of Pamiers, about 1314
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There is no proof for the See also: legend that See also: Bernard Saisset earned Philip IV.'s hatred in 1300—1301 by boldly sustaining the pope's demand for the liberation of the count of See also: Flanders, and by publicly proclaiming the See also: doctrine of papal supremacy
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See Dom Vaissete, Histoire generale de See also: Languedoc, ed
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Privat, t. ix. pp
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216-310; Histoire litteraire de la See also: France, t. See also: xxvi. pp
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540-547; E. de Roziere, Le Passage de Pamiers, in Bibliotheque de 1'Ecole des Chartes (1871) ; Ch
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V . See also: Langlois in See also: Lavisse's Histoire de France, t. iii., pt. ii., pp
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142-146
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