Greetings!
Do any of you know of any men who, following their own conversion, made
arrangements for their wives, and sometimes children, to also take holy
orders. My impression is that this was more common than one might think.
The examples that sprung to my mind (aside from the subject of my study,
Folco -- also known as Folquet, Fulk, Foulques -- the erstwhile troubadour
cum bishop) are: the heretic Waldes who sent his daughters into a nunnery
(but not his wife, who appears to have been less than enthousiastic about
her husband's change of life!), and the founder of Silvanes (a cistercian
house in Provence). But I also seem to remember that a few of the other
houses founded in the twelfth century had founders who were originally
married and whose wife, and sometimes children, either accompanied him or
were sent off to some other monastic house.
It's not central to my work right now, but if anyone can recall any of the
'famous' converts (or anyone else for that matter) who followed this
pattern, I would deeply appreciate it! For that matter, if anyone can
think of any *women* religious who convinced their spouses and/or children
to take orders with them int he twelfth or early thirteenth century, that
would be interesting too.
Thanks!
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Omittamus studia, dulce est desipere, : Nicole Morgan Schulman
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