COURTECUISSE (BRIÈVECUISSE, Breviscoxa), JEAN. — Born at Haleine (Orne) around 1353, he was one of the most active ecclesiastics during the Western Schism and held benefices in several dioceses; he was a renowned orator and taught at the College of Navarre in Paris (doctor sublimis), where he also served as rector. The king’s almoner, a member of the Grand Council, and chancellor of the Chapter of Paris, he maintained relations with Benedetto XIII and Gregorio XII, working for peace in order to heal the schism. Elected bishop of Paris on 27 December 1420, he could not remain there because of the political factions; he was
COUPERIN, FAMIGLIA – Musical autograph of François C. Examples of dissonances from the “Regola per l'accompagnamento,” but from the Brossard collection – Paris, National Library.
He was transferred to Geneva by the Pope on 12 June 1422;
died at the age of seventy on 4 March 1423.
Of his numerous unpublished works, only the Tractatus de Fide et Ecclesia, Romano Pontifice et Concilio generali has been published, in the Opera omnia of Gerson (I. Antwerp 1706, cols. 805–903), where he teaches that the Pope can err, but not the Church gathered in an ecumenical Council, and that the latter has the right to judge the Pope in a case of heresy.