DELIGIEUX, BERNARD. - Franciscan, born around the mid-13th century in Montpellier, died in 1320 in Toulouse. He entered the Order in 1284 and was a lecturer at the convent of Carcassonne (1296). He frequently opposed the abuses of the Inquisition in Carcassonne and Albi, particularly during the trials of 1297 and 1300. He presented himself twice (1301 and 1302) to Philip the Fair to seek better inquisitorial justice, but with little success. For his involvement in the so-called treason of Carcassonne, which aimed to deliver the city to Ferrando of Majorca, he was imprisoned in Paris and later released.
Of Joachite and Spiritualist leanings, he defended himself before John XXII; for this and other charges, including that of having poisoned Benedict XI, he was imprisoned and tried again, and died in prison.