page_title: André Tiraqueau
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: André Tiraqueau / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece of Regii in curia parisiensi senatoris (1554) by André Tiraqueau (1488–1558), French jurist.
context_page_description: André Tiraqueau was a French jurist and politician. He is known also as a patron of François Rabelais, and the character Trinquamelle in Gargantua and Pantagruel is traditionally identified with Tiraqueau.
context_section_description: Tiraqueau had a reputation as a prolific writer.
  De legibus connubialibus (1513). This work justifies the legal disabilities of women by appeal to jus gentium and divine law. It began as part of a commentary on the customs of Poitou, and grew through numerous editions.
  De nobilitate et jure primigeniorum (1549). This work addressed the topic of nobility as social status and recognition, picking up from Bartolus who wrote a work with the same title. Tiraqueau's theory followed that of Bartolus, on the political and legal origins of nobility, as opposed to kinship; and integrated it with the French situation and the scientia juris. The theory was undermined in the longer term by the French kings' use of venal office.
  He wrote a commentary on the Geniales dies of Alessandro Alessandri.
  Tiraqueau's works were collected, firstly in five volumes (1574), and then in seven (Frankfurt, from 1597). The arrangement in the seven-volume edition is:
  I: On nobility and primogeniture;
  II: legal rights in marriage;
  III: law of repossession;
  IV: Cessante causa;
  V: Legacies for pious use, and other works;
  VI: Commentary on Si unquam;
  VII: moderation of punishments.
caption: Frontispiece of Regii in curia parisiensi senatoris (1554), woodcut by Claude Bezoard.
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