It is not certain that the patron of the diocese, the martyr St. Vincent, was a bishop. His cult, at least, existed in the time of Charlemagne, as is proved by a note (in a later hand) of the Wolfenbüttel manuscript of the Hieronymian Martyrology.[2] The oldest account of his martyrdom is in a breviary of Dax, dating from the second half of the thirteenth century, but the author knows nothing of the martyr's time period or the reasons for his death.[3]
Excavations near Dax proved the existence of a Merovingian cemetery on the site of a church which, it is claimed, was dedicated to St. Vincent by Bishop Gratianus.[4] Gratianus, present at the Council of Agde (506), is the first historically known bishop. Among the other bishops of the see were St. Revellatus (early sixth century), St. Macarius (c. 1060), Cardinal Pierre Itier[5] (1361), Cardinal Pierre de Foix (1455), founder of the University of Avignon and the Collège de Foix at Toulouse.
The synodal constitutions of the ancient Diocese of Dax, published by Abbé Antoine Degert, are of great historical interest for the study of the ancient constitutions and customs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Degert in the course of this publication succeeded in rectifying certain errors in the episcopal lists of the Gallia christiana and of Father Eubel in Hierarchia catholica.
During the Great Schism, Dax, which was part of Aquitaine, belonged to the Kings of England (in 1378 Richard II). King Richard chose to support the popes of the Roman Obedience rather than the popes of the Avignon Obedience, who were French and likely to support the King of France in what is now called the Hundred Years' War.[6] All of the cardinals of the Avignon obedience were deprived of their offices and benefices in the Kingdom of Richard II of England, by act of Parliament and decree of the King [7] Dax was required to adhere to the Obedience of Rome.
About 1588 St. Vincent de Paul made his first studies with the Cordeliers of Dax, but good secondary education at Dax dates only from the establishment of the Barnabites in 1640. His learning, however, was sufficient to allow him to study at the University of Toulouse.
On 3 June 1857, the title "Bishop of Dax" was added to the titulature of the Bishop of Aire.[8]
↑Pierre-Louis-Théophile-Georges Goyau (1913). "Diocese of Dax". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.16. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Goyau takes his information directly from Louis Duchesne (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. pp.140-142. second edition (in French). Duchesne concludes that the martyr Vincent might have belonged to the time of the Roman persecutions, or to the fourth, or to the fifth century.
↑The Merovingians were pagans, however, until after the conversion of Clovis, and they did not arrive in the area of Gascony until 531.
↑Pierre Itier had previously been Bishop of Sarlat: Jean, Tarde (1887). de Garard, Gaston (comte) (ed.). Les chroniques de Jean Tarde [1561-1636]: chanoine théologal et vicaire général de Sarlat (in French). Paris: Oudin. p.356., citing a document in the Archives de la Dordogne which states, Dominus P(etrus) divina misericordia nunc Albanensis episcopus S.R.E. Cardinalis, tunc episcopus Sarlatensis...
↑Richard G. Davies, "Richard II and the Church," in: Anthony Goodman and James L. Gillespie, ed. (2003). Richard II: The Art of Kingship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-926220-5., pp. 94-96. R. N. Swanson (2002). "Chapter 2. A Matter of Loyalty". Universities, Academics and the Great Schism. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. pp.21–44. ISBN978-0-521-52226-7.
↑Thomas Rymer, Foedera, Conventiones, Literae et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et alios quosvis... (Londini: A. & J. Churchill, 1708) VII, 222, 231-232, 271-273, and 294.
↑David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy:Diocese of Aire et Dax, retrieved: 2016-08-03.
↑Louis Duchesne (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. pp.140-142.
↑Degert, pp. 35-37. Carterius was present at the IV Council of Orléans in 541.
↑Degert, pp. 37-39. Liberius was present at the V Council of Orléans.
↑Duchesne, p. 97, no. 4. Faustianus is mentioned only by Gregory of Tours (died 594), Historia Francorum, VII. 31, VIII. 2, and VIII. 20.
↑Degert, p. 42. Revelatus is known only from the Breviary of Dax. A breviary is a prayer book, containing special prayers for Masses for local saints. It contains inspiring stories of these saints, proving they are worthy of the cult, and inspiring imitation of their virtues. It is a devotional book. It is hagiography. It is not history.
↑Degert, pp. 47-48, based on what he admits is dubious evidence. Duchesne, p. 97, no. 6, states that Oltherius is mentioned in a charter of the Abbey of Sainte-Marie de Cagnote of the year 895, which he knows from Gallia christiana, based on some papers of [Dom Claude] d'Etiennot [de la Serre]. In other words, Duchesne has never seen any evidence. Cf. J. Depoin, "Un historien du Vexin: Dom Claude Estiennot", Mémoires de la Socété historique Pontoise, 28 (1907), pp. 183-190.
↑Degert, pp. 54-57. Some evidence, at least, concerning him is forged.
↑Degert, pp. 65-68. Raymond 'the Younger' was the nephew of Raymond 'the Elder', his predecessor.
↑Degert, pp. 66–69. Macarius was Bishop of Dax for less than three years, one of which was 1061).
↑Degert, pp. 69–73. Gregory had been raised at Cluny, by Saint Hugh. He was appointed Abbot of Saint-Severus in the diocese of Aire, thanks to the patronage of Sancho Guillaume, Duke of Gascony; then he became Abbot of Soule. He died on 11 January 1072).
↑Degert, pp. 74–80. He had been a monk of Saint-Severus in the diocese of Aire (Adurensis): Gallia christiana I, pp. 1173–1175.
↑Degert, pp. 81–90. The successor was not Archdeacon Raymond-Arnaud, as in Gallia christiana I, p. 1044; Arnaud-Raymond died of violence before the death of Bernard de Mugron.
↑There was a prolonged struggle in the Chapter of the Cathedral of Dax, of which there were nine members, between the supporters of Arnaud de Ville (5 votes) and Pierre de Camone, O.Min. (3 votes). One voted for Raymond de Barde of Auch. De Ville had a majority, but not a canonical majority or a consensus. The matter was appealed to Rome, where Gregory X assigned the matter to Cardinal Giacomo Savelli for investigation. Pierre de Camone came to die, and his followers then turned to Garsias Arnaud de Capenne. Arnaud de Ville was cited to appear personally before John XXII, but the Pope died before he could make the journey. Nicholas III appointed three cardinals to examine Arnaud, and, upon their favorable report, he was appointed Bishop. Digert, pp. 139–140.
↑Gallia christiana I, p. 1051, and Gams, p. 543, attempt to insert a Bishop Matthew and a Bishop Bertrand after Bishop de Liposse. 'Bishop' Matthew was only Abbot of Charoux, and his 'Constitutions' are mythical: Degert, p. 171. Bishop Bertrand is really Bishop Bernard de Liposse.
↑Eubel, I, p. 97. Degert, pp. 171–172. Pierre la Colre had been Vicar General of the Diocese of Bordeaux, as well as Canon and Sacristan of the Cathedral of Dax. He was buried in the church of Lunello in the diocese of Nîmes, which is probably the place of his death.
↑Degert, pp. 173–174. Pierre Itier had previously been Bishop of Sarlat. He was created Cardinal Priest on 17 September 1361, and assigned the titulus of Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.
↑Degert, pp. 174–176. Bishop Bernard d'Albret was the fourth son of Bernard Ezi II d'Albret and Mathe d'Armagnac. He died in the same year, 1362, and was never consecrated.
↑Degert, pp. 199–202. Doctor of Theology. Troselli was suspended on 9 March 1405 by Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna) of the Avignon Obedience, and Nicolas Duriche, O.P., was appointed Vicar-General.
↑Appointed by Boniface IX (1389–1404). Eubel, I, p. 97. Degert, pp. 202–206.
↑Bishop de Borie assisted at the coronation of Jean III d'Albret and Queen Catherine as rulers of Navarre at Pamplona on 10 January 1094. He resigned in favor of his nephew in 1499.
↑Philippe Tamizey de Larroque (1865). Lettres inédites de François de Noailles, évêque de Dax (in French). Paris: Auguste Aubry.Jean-Baptiste Gabarra (1888). Un Evêque de Dax, François de Noailles (in French). Dax: H. Labèque.
↑On 13 April 1563 Noailles was cited to appear before the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy and favoring Calvinism. He was a close friend of Cardinal Odet de Châtillon, who had become a Calvinist in 1561. Antoine Degert (1904). "Évêques gascons devant l' Inquistion Romaine". Revue de Gascogne. New series. 4 (45): 410–437. François had resigned in anticipation of being named Bishop of Beauvais, in succession to Cardinal Odet; François would be replaced by his brother Gilles as Bishop of Dax. King Charles IX and Catherine de Medicis were agreed, desirous of using Cardinal Odet as a bridge to the Huguenots. (Degert, p. 431) But Pope Pius IV was disagreeable, and Cardinal Odet was excommunicated and deprived in September 1562.
↑Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 89. Gallia christiana I (1715), p. 1058. Du Sault had been Dean of the church of S. Severinus near Bordeaux, his home town. He was appointed Bishop of Dax by King Henri IV, and approved by Pope Clement VIII on 25 May 1598. He was granted the pallium on 2 August 1599. In his senility he was given a Coadjutor, Philibert du Sault.
↑Le Boux was nominated to the See of Perigord by King Louis XIV on 1 May 1666, and his bulls of confirmation and consecration were issued by Pope Alexander VII on 15 December 1666: Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 277, with note 6. He died in August 1693.
↑Ritzler, Hierarchia catholica V, p. 240. The transfer was approved by Pope Clement X on 2 May 1672.
↑Chaumont was nominated by Louis XIV on 17 May 1671, and was approved by Clement X on 14 December 1671.
↑La Lanne, whose brother was President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, was nominated in 1684 by King Louis XIV, but never confirmed by Pope Innocent XI. Ritzler, V, p. 93, note 2. Dufourcet, p. 227, claims that he made his entry into Dax on 13 December 1685. But without his bulls of confirmation he could not be consecrated or installed. He was nominated by King Louis XIV to be Bishop of Bayonne on 1 November 1688, but not confirmed by Pope Innocent XII until 10 March 1692. He died on 6 August 1700. Ritzler, V, p. 112, note 4.
↑De Prugues was nominated in 1688, and died in Paris in 1690, never having been confirmed by Pope Innocent XI or Pope Innocent XII. Ritzler, V, p. 93, note 2. Dufourcet, p. 227, claims that he made his entry into Dax on 13 May 1689.
↑Bernard d'Abbadie was nominated Bishop of Dax by Louis XIV on 15/16 August 1690, when he was parish priest of the church of Mazeclac in the diocese of Lectoure, He was consecrated on 26 October 1692: Gallia christiana I, p. 1062. He died at the age of 86 on 14 December 1732.
↑Le Quien was nominated by King Louis XV on 24 November 1771. He died on 28 October 1805.
↑Dufourcet, pp. 229–230 (with errors). Saurine was consecrated in Paris on 27 February 1791, by Bishop Gobel (one of Bishop Talleyrand's consecrands). Pisani, pp. 430–441; 445. He made his submission to Pope Pius VII, and on 29 April 1802 was granted the Archbishopric of Strasbourg. See: Gams, p. 316.
Books and articles
Reference books
Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp.599–601. (Use with caution; obsolete)
Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p.89.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p.93.
Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. pp.92–93.
Studies
Degert, Antoine (1899). Histoire des évêques de Dax (in French). Dax: H. Labèque.
Dufourcet, Eugène (1879). "Les Évêques de Dax, depuis Saint Vincent de Sentes jusqu'à Mgr Le Quien de Laneufville". Bulletin de la Société de Borda. 4: 205–230.
Pisani, Paul (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils.
Sainte-Marthe, Denis de (O.S.B.) (1715). Gallia Christiana, In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa; Qua Series Et Historia Archiepiscoporum, Episcoporum, Et Abbatum Franciae Vicinarumque Ditionum ab origine Ecclesiarum ad nostra tempora deducitur, & probatur ex authenticis Instrumentis ad calcem appositis: Tomus Primus (in Latin). Vol.Tomus primus. Paris: Johannes-Baptista Coignard, Regis & Academiae Gallicae Architypographus. pp.1035–1070.
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