Background
Castanet was born in Montpellier and obtained a law degree from the University of Montpellier.
Castanet was born in Montpellier and obtained a law degree from the University of Montpellier.
Castenet was not a Dominican, though he had an excellent relationship with the order of the Preachers. He was Inquisitor of Languedoc and Vice-Inquisitor of France. He conducted diplomacy for the Church in Italy and Germany.
Castanet was appointed the (1276 to 1308).
In this post, Castenet engaged in a power struggle with the local landowners. He used accusations of heresy and the inquisition to control and punish those who opposed his right to arrest any citizen in the diocese and other political power prerogatives he held.
In 1287 Castanet ordered the start of construction on a new fortress-like cathedral at Albi. In 1307, he was accused of murder, pastoral neglect, simony, cruelty in the exercise of justice.
Number sentence was issued, but he was transferred to become the Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay.
In Avignon, he wrote the initial indictment of Bernard Délicieux.