Pierre Lizet (1482 – 17 June 1554)[1] was a French magistrate.

He received his education in civil law and canon law. From 1529 to 1549, he was the president of the Parlement of Paris.[1]

During the spread of Protestantism in France, the French Parliament started to evaluate appeals against sentences written by the Roman Catholic diocesan courts. In selected cases, bishops were censored by the civil legislative assembly when their decisions were declared to be heretical. In 1525, Guillaume Poyet, future lawyer of the king of France, asked the Parliament to suspend bishop of Angers Francis de Rohan (1480-1536) from its functions. It was the first case discussed in France. The bishop was guilty of simony because he had allowed his priests to be paid by Christian believers in order to administer sacraments to them. Lizet compared simoniac bishops to the heretics and asked the royal court to replace the ecclesiastical jurisdiction upon similar cases. Jean Guibert was the first French citizen to be locked up in a monastery by order of the king and then to be liberated in 1527. Two years before, his judicial case was instrumental to attribute to the king the power of interdicting Roman Catholic bishops from their local jurisdiction upon the cases of heresy.[2]

At the time of his death, Theodore Beza wrote the following French epitaph for him:

Hercules desconfit iadis
Serpens, geans, & autres bestes.
Roland, Oliuier, Amadis
Feirent voler lances & testes.
Mais, n'en desplaise a leurs conquestes,
Liset, tout sot & ignorant,
A plus faict que le demourant
Des preux de nations quelconques,
Car il feit mourir en mourant
La plus grand'beste qui fut oncques.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pierre LIZET (1482-1554), Premier Président du Parlement of Paris". Magistratures.20minutes-blogs.fr. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ^ Lange, Tyler (10 April 2013). "L'ecclésiologie du royaume de France : l'hérésie devant le parlement de Paris dans les années 1520" [The ecclesiology of the kingdom of France: the heresy in front of the Parliament of Paris during the 1520s]. Bulletin du centre d'études médiévales d'Auxerre - BUCEMA (in French) (7 (Off-Series)). doi:10.4000/cem.12785. ISSN 1623-5770. OCLC 5127152798. Retrieved 21 February 2021. (at nn. 20-21
  3. ^ Epitaphe de Messire Pierre Liset, preux & vaillant champion, in Satyres chrestienes de la cuisine papale, Geneva, 1560, p. 131.
  4. ^ Flögel, Karl Friedrich (1785). Geschichte der komischen litteratur (in French). Vol. 2. David Siegert. p. 500. OCLC 6726956.

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