medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Ivo of Chartres (d. 1116) Ivo was born in c. 1040 near Beauvais. He
became an Augustinian canon and in 1090 was elected bishop of Chartres.
As far as i know, there is no solid evidence about his place of birth, one way
or the other.
The Beauvais hypothesis though an old tradition, is, i believe, perhaps mostly
based on the fact that Ivo was the (reforming) abbot of the important
Augustinian house of St. Quintin in that city before he was called to Chartres
(where he reformed the abbey of St. John --"Saint-Jean-en-Vallée").
before St. Q., he apparently studied with Lanfranc at Bec and in Paris.
in an extensive biography of him in 1962 Rolf Sprandel (_Ivo von Chartres und
seine Stellung in der Kirchegeschichte_, [Pariser Hist. Stud., 1], Stuttgart
1962) suggested that he might have originally been from the Chartrain, noting
that some nephews are mentionedin the local documents (the cathedral
necrology, i believe).
It's been quite a while since i looked at Sprandel's arguments in any detail
and never with the bit of knowledge i've subsequently picked up about the
families of the region; but i've always kept an eye out, whilst trolling
through the charters, for any possible family connections --with nothing
whatever to show for it.
seems curious that, if he *did* have family there, there wouldn't be more
evidence of it --before or after his episcopacy-- surviving.
among other things, "Ivo" is not a very common name in the region and the
nephews might very well have come to town on the coat tails of their powerful
uncle (nepotism was common, even among "reformers," just like everyone else
--it was just the way things were *done*).
i note that the new on-line article on him article on him by Klaus-Gunther
Wesseling in the Bautz _Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikons_
(http://bautz.de/bbkl/i/ivo_v_ch.shtml --a *great* resource, btw, with its
exhaustive, up-to-date bibliographies) cautiously opens with "...[geboren] um
1040 in der Nähe von Beauvais oder Chartres (?)..."
Wesseling's listing of the quite extensive post-1962 literature is a painful
reminder of that up with which i have not kept. though i don't see anything
there at first glance which might have shed light on Sprandel's theory.
>He publicly criticized the relationship between King Philip I and Bertrade of
Anjou, and in consequence was imprisoned for two years.
by the King's man in the region, Hugh of LePuiset, Viscount of Chartres.
seems like it wasn't a good time to be reminding one's Betters that running
off with the wife of one of their theoretical vassals was a Big No-No.
Best to all from here,
christopher
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