medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:20:59 -0700 Phyllis wrote:
>Today (16. September) is the feast day of:
>Victor III (d. 1087) Desiderius Danfari was a Beneventan who became a monk
>and eventually abbot of Montecassino in 1057. After Gregory VII's death he
>was elected pope; he refused at first and avoided consecration for a year
>and died after only four months in office. His official canonization was
>in 1887.
(Latin) Desiderius was his name in religion. As abbot he's Desiderius II, though as with other exceptionally famous bearers of a name repeated in a given office this ordinal is often omitted.
D.'s (Lombard) personal name was Dauferi. This form occurs so often in records from the southern Lombard region that normalizing it (or such also well attested analogs as Guaiferi or Adelferi) to one ending in "ari" seems somehow inappropriate; certainly it does not reflect the practice of most historians currently working in this area. Southern Lombard names of this type are often anglicised in "-fer": thus Daufer (as in Victor III), Guaifer (as in the Cassinese hagiographer), Adelfer (as in A. of Trani, author of one of the post obitum accounts of St. Nicholas the Pilgrim).
Best,
John Dillon
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