Raymond de Canillac

Raymond de Canillac (born ca. 1300, died 1373) was a French lawyer, bishop, and cardinal. He was born at Roche de Canilhac, the family castle, in the diocese of Mende in the Gevaudan in central France, the son of Guillaume de Canillac and a sister of Cardinal Bertrand de Déaulx. Both of his uncles, Pons and Guy, were successively abbots of Aniane (Diocese of Maguelonne, 30 km. from Montpellier), as was a nephew of the Cardinal, also called Pons. In 1345 his niece Garine, the daughter of his brother Marquis and of Alixène de Poitiers-Valentinois, married Guillaume Roger, Vicount of Beaufort, the brother of Cardinal Pierre Roger de Beaufort, who became Pope Clement VI. Raymond became a member of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine (CRSA). He studied law at the University of Montpellier, and obtained the degree of Doctor in utroque iure (Civil Law and Canon Law). Beginning a career He was granted the benefice of Provost of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Maguelone, which he already held in 1333. He presided over the Provincial Chapter of the Canons Regular, held at Narbonne on 25 November 1339, in which the statutes of the Augustinians, which had been approved by Pope Benedict XII, were promulgated. In 1340 he obtained from King Philip VI confirmation of the privileges which were claimed by the Chapter of the Cathedral of Maguelone. In the same year, on 16 August, Raymond de Cahillac was present in Montpellier at the swearing-in of the Locumtenens of the Rector of the Universitatis Studium of Montpellier. In 1342 he was chosen as Arbitrator, along with Cardinal Guillaume d'Aure and Archbishop Jean de Baussan of Arles, between the Vestiary of the Cathedral of Maguelone and the cloistral Canons in the matter of provision of clothing, which was a duty of the Vestiary.