NOGARET, GUGLIELMO. - N. around 1260 at St-Felix de Caraman (Toulouse). Professor of law at Montpellier (1291), then judge of Beaucaire (1294), he was dear to Philip the Fair and became a member of the royal Curia (1296); he was made a knight, keeper of the seals and baron, being enriched with fiefs and lordships.

Armed with all the quibbles of the legists, he was the minister of the King's villainies, especially in the struggle against Boniface VIII, in which he upheld the falsehoods and mystifications of the papal enemies, above all after the publication of the bull Ausculta fili (5 Dec. 1301). He joined the Colonna in the struggle against the Pope, and in the spring of 1303, with a band of ruffians, he entered the papal territories with the bold design of imprisoning him and taking him to France. On the eve of the day on which the bull of excommunication against Philip the Fair Super Petri solio (7 Sept. 1303) was to be published, he penetrated into Anagni with Sciarra Colonna, attacked the papal palace and took the old Pontiff prisoner, who refused to yield to the violence used against him. The following day the city rose up and, after a bitter struggle, freed the Pontiff and drove out the French.

N., having returned to his homeland, received new great favors and was then appointed vice-chancellor of France (22 Sept. 1307); he took an active part in the question of the suppression of the Templars and in the trial staged against the memory of Boniface VIII. D. in Apr. 1313, after having obtained absolution ad cautelam from Clement V.

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BIBL.: M. Pieri, L'attentato contro Bonifacio VIII, Turin 1903; L. Thomas, La vie privée de G. de N., Toulouse 1904; P. Fedele, Per la storia dell'attentato di Anagni, in Boll. dell'Ist. storico ital., 41 (1921), pp. 195-203; id., Ulteriori precisazioni sull'attentato di Anagni, in Résumés of the Congr. Internaz. di Scienze storiche, Zurich 1938.

Innocenzo Giuliani

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