Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir

French administrator and jurist

Also known as: Philippe de Beaumanoir

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Also called:: Philippe de Beaumanoir

Born:: c. 1246, near Compiègne, France

Died:: Jan. 7, 1296, buried Compiègne

Also Known As:: Philippe de Beaumanoir

Subjects Of Study:: French law; law code

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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 the Gâtinais, an area lying southeast of Paris in the region of present-day Brie, afterward holding similar administrative positions in other parts of France.

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