Name Philippe Remi Died 1296 | Role Poet | |
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Books Le roman de la manekine | ||
Philippe de Remi or Philippe de Beaumanoir (c. 1247–1296), contemporarily Phelippes de Beaumanoir, was a French jurist and royal official. He was a junior son of Philippe de Remi (d. 1265), poet and bailli of the Gatinais, who was renowned for his 20,000 verses of poems including La Manekine, Jehan et Blonde and a salut d'amour.
After studies of law in Orleans and perhaps Bologna, de Remi became bailli of Clermont in the county of Beauvaisis (1279), then seneschal of Poitou (1284) and the Saintonge (1287). Afterwards, he came to hold some of the most senior administrative offices in the realm: bailli of the Vermandois (1289), the Touraine (1291) and Senlis (1292).
His administrative experience formed the basis of his principal work, the Coustumes de Beauvoisis of 1283, which was first printed in 1690. Even though barely noticed in its own time, it was later regarded as one of the best works bearing on old French customary law, and was frequently referred to with high admiration by Montesquieu, who called him la lumiere de son temps ("the light of his time").