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A Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Money Manager: Archbishop Eudes Rigaud of Rouen, 1248–1275

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2005

ADAM J. DAVIS
ADAM J. DAVIS
Affiliation:
Department of History, Denison University, Granville, Ohio 43023, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In the century following the death of St Francis, the Franciscan order underwent enormously rapid changes. As Franciscans became university masters, inquisitors, royal councillors and bishops, some confronted dilemmas in reconciling their religious vows with the duties of their offices. Yet whereas some friar-bishops and archbishops might have shied away from involving themselves in their churches' finances, Eudes Rigaud, the first Franciscan archbishop of Rouen, made significant investments in landed property, seigneurial rights and rents on behalf of his archdiocese. The Franciscan archbishop's commitment to ecclesiastical reform, evident in his meticulous visitations of his clergy as recorded in his episcopal register, is also visible in his efforts to augment his archdiocese's temporalities.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 431 - 454
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

ADSM=Archives Départementales de la Seine-Maritime, RouenI have used l.t. and l.p. as the abbreviations for French royal pounds or livres tournois and livres parisis. The internal rate of exchange between livres tournois and livres parisis was five to four. English sterling was worth about four times more than the tournois in the thirteenth century.
A special debt of gratitude is owed to the two anonymous readers for this JOURNAL for their extremely helpful criticisms. The author also wishes to thank Professor William Chester Jordan of Princeton University and Professor Paul Freedman of Yale University for their help in the preparation of this article.