Abstract
The author of this article is preparing a new edition of the texts concerning the famous dispute between Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII. The first group of texts relates to the royal attack upon the bishop of Pamiers, Bernard Saisset. One of the Saisset documents, extant in two versions, is of particular interest and deserves separate treatment. It is edited here with an introductory commentary. The emphasis in this commentary is upon the fundamental significance of the seizure of the bishop’s temporalities, that is, of the property, goods and money belonging to Saisset both personally and as bishop. This seizure, it is argued, was a major — if not the major — reason for the pope’s dramatic change of policy towards the French Crown as demonstrated in a batch of papal declarations of 4 and 5 December 1301.
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