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Chancellor of France

Head of the judiciary of Ancien-era France

Head of the judiciary of Ancien-era France

The Chancellor of France (), also known as the Grand Chancellor or Lord Chancellor, was the officer of state responsible for the judiciary of the Kingdom of France. The Chancellor was responsible for seeing that royal decrees were enrolled and registered by the sundry parlements, provincial appellate courts. However, since the Chancellor was appointed for life, and might fall from favour, or be too ill to carry out his duties, his duties would occasionally fall to his deputy, the Keeper of the Seals of France (Garde des sceaux de France).

The last Chancellor died in 1790, by which time the French Revolution was well underway, and the position was left vacant. Instead, in 1791, the Chancellor's portfolio and responsibilities were assigned to the Keeper of the Seals who was accordingly given the additional title of Minister of Justice under the Revolutionary government. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, the position of the Chancellor was divorced from its judicial responsibilities and re-established as president of the Chamber of Peers, the upper house of the French parliament until 1848. The last Chancellor was Etienne-Denis Pasquier, appointed by King Louis Philippe I in 1837.

Frankish chancellors under the Merovingians and Carolingians

  • 496–533: Rémi de Reims, known as Saint Rémi (Référendaire of France)
  • 561: Siggo, référendaire to Sigebert I, then to Chilperic I and to Childebert II
  • 618–638: Romain de Rouen, known as Saint Romain, bishop of Rouen
  • 638–657: Dadon, known as Saint Ouen, grand référendaire to Dagobert I and also to Clovis II
  • 657–695: Ansbert, bishop of Rouen, référendaire
  • 695–710: Saint Bonit, bishop of Auvergne, référendaire to Sigebert III, king of Austrasia
  • 652–673: Robert II, référendaire to Clotaire III
  • 750–768: Fulard, Abbot of St. Denis, chancellor to Pepin the Short
  • 796–800: Alcuin, Abbot of Tours, chancellor to Charlemagne as king of the Franks, prepared the Capitulaire De Villis
  • 800–819: Fridgise, chancellor to Charlemagne, then to Louis the Pious
  • 819–832: Adalard, chancellor to Louis the Pious See also Royal Administration of Merovingian and Carolingian Dynasties.

Chancellors of France

René Nicolas de Maupeou16 September 17681 July 1790

Keepers of the Seals, 1699–1790

Jérôme Champion de Cicé4 August 178921 November 1790

Notes

References

  1. Pierre-Vincent Claverie, "De l'entourage royal à l'entourage pontifical : l'exemple méconnu de l'archevêque Gilles de Tyr († 1266)", in ''À l’ombre du Pouvoir : Les entourages princiers au Moyen Âge'', ed. Jean-Louis Kupper and Alain Marchandisse (Presses universitaires de Liège, 2003). p. 51.
  2. Conradus Eubel, ''Hierarchia catholica medii aevi'' Tomus I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), p. 132.
  3. The only chancellor to have been elected by an assembly gathered by Charles V.
  4. Chancellor for [[Henry VI of England. Henry VI]]'s position as king of France.
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