Guillaume de Nogaret (1260 â€" 13 April 1313) was a French statesman,
councillor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France.Guillaume de
Nogaret (1260 â€" 13 April 1313) was a French statesman, councillor
and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France.Nogaret was born in
Saint-Félix-Lauragais, Haute-Garonne. The family held a small
ancestral property of servile origin at Nogaret, near
Saint-Félix-de-Caraman (today's Saint-Félix-Lauragais), from which
it took its name. In 1291 Guillaume was professor of jurisprudence at
the university of Montpellier, and in 1296 he became a member of the
Curia Regis at Paris. From 1306, he was a seigneur of Marsillargues,
Calvisson, Aujargues and Congénies in Languedoc.His name is mainly
connected with the quarrel between Philip IV and Pope Boniface VIII.
In 1300 he was sent with an embassy to Boniface, of which he left a
picturesque and highly coloured account. His influence over the king
dates from February 1303, when he persuaded Philip to consent to the
bold plan of seizing Boniface and bringing him forcibly from Italy to
a council in France meant to depose him. On 7 March he received, with
three others, a secret commission from the royal chancery to "go to
certain places ... and make such treaties with such persons as seemed
good to them." On 12 March a solemn royal assembly was held in the
Louvre, at which Guillaume de Nogaret read a long series of
accusations against Boniface and demanded the calling of a general
council to try him. Guillaume de Nogaret Top Movies & Young Movies