The Mistery of Belicena Villca of a whole class of secular legists , whose secret mission would consist of reviewing , and updating , Roman Law . Philip III , the son of Louis IX , was a King completely dominated by the Cistercian Golen , who kept him in such ignorance that , for example , they never taught him to read and write ; his mental makeup , cleverly shaped by the Golen instructors , corresponded more to that of the monk than that of the warrior . The Lords of the Dog never tried to alter this control as their Strategy did not pass through him but through his son Philip IV ; however , at the time they managed to influence so that Philip III approved a Law , apparently beneficial for the Crown , which reserved the right to grant titles of nobility to secular lawyers ; that legal instrument was later enforced to promote numerous and important Domini Canis to the highest positions and magistracies of the Court , until then forbidden to all plebeian classes . Those secular legists , belonging to the Circulus Domini Canis , had great dedication to their specific mission and , by 1285 , they had already developed the foundations that would allow the constitution of a State in which the Royal Function was above any other Power . Philip IV would count from the outset , therefore , with a team of directors and officials highly specialized in Roman Law , who would faithfully support him in confronting with the Golen papacy . From the most prestigious French universities , especially Paris , Toulouse and Montpellier , but also from the Order of Preachers , and even from the new educated bourgeoisie , will come out the legists who will give intellectual support to Philip IV : among the main ones it is worth remembering the Knights Pierre Flotte , Robert de Artois and the Count of Saint Pol ; to Enguerrand de Marigny , from the Norman bourgeoisie , as well as his brother , Bishop Philippe de Marigny ; Guillaume de Plasian , Knight of Toulouse and fervent Cathar ; and Guillaume de Nogaret , member of the family of villains who lived in the lands of Peter of Crete and Valentina , in Saint Félix de Caraman : his grandparents had been burned at Albi by Simon de Montfort , but he secretly professed Catharism and was a member of the Circulus Domini Canis ; he was a law professor at Montpellier and Nimes , before being summoned to the Court of Philip the Fair .
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Starting from the preceding concepts , instilled in Philip IV by the Domini Canis instructors , his future Strategy is outlined : above all , he must restore the Royal Function ; for this , he will try to separate the Church from the State ; and such separation will be supported by precise legal arguments of Roman Law . But the participation of the Church was manifested in the three main powers of the State : in the legislative , by the supremacy of the Canon Law on civil jurisdiction ; in the judiciary , for the supremacy of the ecclesiastical Courts to judge all cases , independently and above of civil justice ; and in the administrative , by the absorption of large incomes coming from the Kingdom , without the State being able to exercise any control over them . The measures that Philip IV will adopt to change this last point will be those that will provoke the most violent reaction of the Golen Church .
When Philip IV acceded to the Throne , the Church was politically and economically powerful , and was embedded in the state . His father , Philip III , had committed the Kingdom in a Crusade against Aragón that had already cost a terrible defeat to the French arms . The monarchy was weak in the face of the landowner nobility : the feudal Lords , by falling into the Cultural Pact , were granting a superlative value to the property of the land , abandoning or forgetting the ancient strategic concept of the occupation of the peoples of the Blood Pact ; therefore , in the time of Philip IV , it was accepted that an absurd relationship existed between the nobility of a lineage and the surface of the lands of its property , so that the Lord who had the most land , pretended to be the most Noble and powerful , even disputing the sovereignty of the King himself . Prior to Philip Augustus ( 1180-1223 ), for example , the Duke of Guyenne , the Count of Toulouse , or the Duke of Normandy , individually owned more land
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