Bernard Clergue was the town bayle of the village of Montaillou in the south of France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. A great deal about his life is recorded in the Fournier Register and has been studied by historians, most notably Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie in his book Montaillou.
Bernard was a member of the powerful Clergue family, the wealthiest in the village. He was the son of Pons and Mengarde Clergue and the brother of Pierre Clergue. While Pierre became the village priest, and thus the local representative of the church, Bernard became the bayle, the representative of the government. The bayle was the tax collector and the main enforcer of law and order in the town, reporting to the châtelain who ruled to town for the Comté de Foix.
While Bernard was one of the few educated and literate people in the town he was still a peasant and most of his work was farming. As bayle he farmed not only his own land, but also that of the Comté. This included the land seized from Cathar heretics. As with the rest of the family Bernard himself was a staunch Cathar, but was for a long time protected by his wealth and connections.
While not as great a womanizer as his brother Pierre, Bernard did father a child out of wedlock: Mengarde Clergue, who later married Raymond Aymeric of Prades d'Aillon. Bernard later fell deeply in love with Raymonde Belot, whom he married.
Pierre was the unquestioned leader of the family and Bernard was devastated when he was arrested by the inquisition. Bernard reported that he had lost his "god" and his "ruler". He thus went to great ends to try to free Pierre, including dispensing some 14,000 sous in bribes, a great deal of money at the time.
Bernard himself was arrested by the inquisition in 1324, after a month in prison he died in the summer of that year.
BernardClergue was the town bayle of the village of Montaillou in the south of France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. A great...
of the village. His brother BernardClergue became the local bayle, the enforcer of laws and collector of taxes. The Clergue brothers thus had a central...
Clergue (French: [klɛʁg]) is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: BernardClergue, French bayle Francis Clergue (1856–1939), American...
servant to replace his sister, Raymonde, who was soon to be wed to BernardClergue. She agreed and worked for the Belots. She lived in a small barn and...
solier to his home. He also became assistant bayle in the town to BernardClergue. His marriage was unhappy, however, he ignored his wife and continued...
After Arnaud died, Raymonde married Bernard Guilhou. For a time she was also the mistress to priest Pierre Clergue. Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou:...
after a photography exhibition in New York, organized by his friend Lucien Clergue. He had recorded his first official album in the chapel of Arles in France...
critics have noted that for Le Roy Ladurie, the village priest Father Pierre Clergue, an ardent womanizer whose vow of celibacy meant nothing and who apparently...
l'Académie française. He co-founded in 1970, with the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue and the historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, the Rencontres d'Arles. At the...
Catalogue of an exhibition at Musée Cantini by Doisneau, Denis Brihat, Lucien Clergue, and Jean-Pierre Sudre. Le Royaume secret du milieu. (The secret of the...
French). 17 December 1997. Retrieved 13 March 2024. "Rougemont". Anne Clergue. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2024. "Inside Legendary Creator Guy...
Olivier Faure, Christiane Taubira, Paul Magnette, François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve, Ségolène Royal, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, and Christian Eckert...
greatest photographers in the world together with Guy Bourdin and Lucien Clergue. He produced portraits of many personalities such as Johnny Hallyday, Gilbert...
painter, sculptor and printmaker, member of the Nouveau Réalisme. Lucien Clergue, photographer. Edmund Dulac, magazine illustrator and stamp designer. Pierre...
general Colby Chandler, Class of 1950, former CEO, Eastman Kodak Francis Clergue, businessman, industrialist Lee Dellicker, former CEO, Windover Construction...
founded Montreal 1985 Robert Christie Historian, politician 1938 Francis Clergue Businessman (Sault Ste. Marie industry) 1987 Lucille Clifton ('Wii Nii...
"HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca". www.historicplaces.ca. "Moulin de l’Île st-bernard" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. www.patrimoineduquebec.com...
Phénix, le paysage regarde, illustrated by Jean Dieuzaide and Lucien Clergue, P. Montel, 1984. Louise, Flammarion, 1985. Fête des mères, Albin Michel...
Parrish, Paul Adolphe Rajon, Mariano Fortuny, Marilyn Bridges, Lucien Clergue, Elliott Erwitt, Andreas Feininger, Harold Feinstein, Larry Fink, Sally...
Global Information