Jean-Pierre Gibert

Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736. He became a cleric at an early age, receiving the tonsure only; he studied at Aix, and became doctor of theology and canon law. He taught ecclesiastical law in the seminaries of Toulon and Aix, and settled in Paris in 1703, where he lived and worked in retirement.

His principal works are: “Doctrina canonum in corpore juris inclusorum, circa consensum parentum requisitum ad matrimonium filiorum minorum” (Paris, 1709); “Institutions ecclésiastiques et bénéficiales suivant les principes du droit commun et les usagesde France” (Paris, 1720 and 1736); “Usages de l’Église gallicane concernant les consures et l’irrégularité considérées en général et en particulier” (Paris, 1724 and 1750); “Tradition ou Histoire de l’Église sur le sacrement de mariage” (Paris, 1725); “Consultations canoniques sur les sacrements” (Paris, 1721-1725 and 1750); “Corpus juris canonici per regulas naturali ordine digestas, usuque temperates, ex eodem jure et conciliis, patribus atque aliunde desumptas” (Geneva, 1736; Lyons, 1737), a masterly work on canon law in which the writer deviates from the order of the Corpus Juris. Gilbert was a moderate Gallican.