Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir

Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir (born c. 1246, near Compiègne, France—died Jan. 7, 1296, buried Compiègne) was a French administrator and jurist whose major work, Coutumes de Beauvaisis (drafted c. 1280–83), was an early codification of old French law. Beaumanoir also wrote two metrical romances, La Manekine and Jehan et Blonde, preserved in a single 14th-century manuscript. In 1279, perhaps after traveling in Britain, he succeeded his brother Girard as bailli (bailiff ) of...