Pierre de Maillezais
Pierre de Maillezais[1] was the author of a chronicle history in two volumes of Maillezais Abbey, which was located in present-day Vendée, France.
This author, a Benedictine monk, is otherwise little known in terms of hard facts; the manuscript of the chronicle, shortened Latin title Qualiter fuit constructum Malliacense monasterium is now dated to c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".;[2] or c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., and relating to a foundation "myth".[3] He edited a Crusader work Historiae Hierosolymitanae libri IV written by Baldric of Dol.[4] Older works make the author abbot, and place him somewhat later.[5] He is reputed as an admirer of Cicero, founder of a library, and a follower of William IX of Aquitaine on the First Crusade.[6]
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- ↑ Peter of Maillezais, Petrus Malleacensis.
- ↑ Burkhardt Tutsch, Studien zur Rezeptionsgeschichte der Consuetudines Ulrichs von Cluny (1998), p. 255, following Louis Delhommeau (1961), Notes et documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'abbaye Saint-Pierre de Maillezais, au diocèse de Luçon, depuis sa fondation jusqu’à son érection en évêché par le pape Jean XXII (1317).
- ↑ Amy Goodrich Remensnyder, Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France (1995) p. 20.
- ↑ Template:Runciman-A History of the Crusades
- ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia: Lucon
- ↑ Croisade ordre religieux militaire vendee canaux marais assechement
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References
- Yves Chauvin and Georges Pon (2001), La fondation de l’abbaye de Maillezais: récit du moine Pierre