What about Abelard and Heloise at the front edge of the 12th century
Renaissance? He didn't exactly convert her, but did arrange for her
induction into religious life, setting her up as abbess of a religious
house which, I believe, prospered well into the 17th century.
1996, Nicolette wrote:
> 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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