Belleméra, Egidio de

BELLEMÉRA (Aegidius de Bellamera, or de Belleméra), Egidio de. - Italian decretalist, d. around 1392. In the great Western Schism he followed the party of the antipope Clement VII. According to his own account (Cap. Si in laici, Decret. 38), he was promoted to the doctorate by Simone de Brossano, who was later elected cardinal. Around 1374 he was appointed by Gregory XI "auditor litterarum contradictarum," then regent of the Apostolic Chancery.

In this office he composed the rules of the said Chancery (Regulae cancellariae apostolicae, ed. Otthental, p. 900). As auditor of the Roman Rota he published a collection of the decisions of this pontifical tribunal from the years 1374-78, drawing them "ex consiliis dominorum Sacri Palatii auditorum," and he arranged them under appropriate rubrics (Lyons 1556).

Appointed bishop of Lavaur in 1383, he was transferred in 1391 to the see of Le Puy and then 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 VI (ibid. 1543-49); of a Commentary on the Clementines (Venice 1587), of other commentaries, and of various particular treatises, almost all on the Clementines.

Of his practical activity, besides the aforementioned collection of Rotal Decisiones, there remains his collection of Consilia in 4 vols. (Lyons 1521; Venice 1579).