[1] During the spread of Protestantism in France, the French Parliament started to evaluate appeals against sentences written by the Roman Catholic diocesan courts.
In 1525, Guillaume Poyet, future lawyer of the king of France, asked the Parliament to suspend bishop of Angers Francis de Rohan (1480–1536) from its functions.
Lizet compared simoniac bishops to the heretics and asked the royal court to replace the ecclesiastical jurisdiction upon similar cases.
[2] At the time of his death, Theodore Beza wrote the following French epitaph for him: Hercules desconfit iadis Serpens, geans, & autres bestes.
Mais, n'en desplaise a leurs conquestes, Liset, tout sot & ignorant, A plus faict que le demourant Des preux de nations quelconques, Car il feit mourir en mourant La plus grand'beste qui fut oncques.