BELLEMERA (AEGIDIUS de BELLAMERA, or de BELLEMERA), Egidio de. — Italian decretalist, d. c. 1392. During the Western Schism he adhered to the party of the antipope Clement VII. As he himself relates (Cap. Si in laicis, Decret. 38), he was promoted to the doctorate by Simone de Brossano, who was later created cardinal. About 1374 he was named by Gregory XI “auditor litterarum contradictarum,” and subsequently regent of the Apostolic Chancery.
In this office he drew up the rules of the said Chancery (Regulae cancellariae apostolicae, ed. Ottenthal, p. 900). As auditor of the Roman Rota he published a collection of the decisions of this papal tribunal for the years 1374–78, drawn “ex consiliis dominorum Sacri Palatii auditorum” and arranged under suitable headings (Lyons 1556).
Appointed bishop of Lavaur in 1383, he was transferred in 1391 to the see of Le Puy and in 1392 by the antipope Clement VII to that of Avignon.
He was the author of a Remissorius seu Commentaria in decretum Gratiani (Lyons 1550); of Praelectiones in libros decretalium partis IV (ibid. 1543–49); of a commentary on the Clementines (Venice 1587), of other commentaries, and of various special treatises, almost all on the Clementines.
Of his practical activity, besides the aforesaid collection of Decisiones rotales, there remains his collection of Consilia in 4 vols. (Lyons 1521; Venice 1579).