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For the prefaces of the canon law collections attributed to Ivo, see:
Prefaces to canon law books in Latin Christianity: selected translations
500-1245, tr. R. Somerville & B. Brasington (New Haven: Yale UPr, 1998),
pp. 111-117 [introduction with notes], 132-158 [translations].
Tom Izbicki
At 12:29 PM 12/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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>
>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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