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Patrologia Latina

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers

Church Fathers

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theology and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history....
and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.

Although consisting of reprints of old editions, which often contain mistakes and do not comply with modern standards of scholarship, the series, due to its availability (it is present in many academic libraries) and the fact that it incorporates many texts of which no modern critical edition is available, is still widely used by scholars of the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers

Church Fathers

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
and is in this respect comparable to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Monumenta Germaniae Historica

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of History of Germany from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500....
. The Patrologia Latina is one part of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, the second part of which is the Patrologia Graeco-Latina
Patrologia Graeca

The Patrologia Graeca is an edited collection of writings by the Christian Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the ancient Koine or Medieval Greek variants of the Greek language....
, consisting of patristic and medieval Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
works with Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
translations.

The Patrologia Latina includes over 1000 years of Latin works from Tertullian

Tertullian

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian, was a prolific and controversial early Christian author, and the first to write Christian Latin literature....
to Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III was born in either 1160 or 1161, and died on July 16, 1216 at Perugia. He was born with the name Lotario de Conti, and he was pope from January 8, 1198 until his death....
, in 217 volumes: volumes 1 to 73, from Tertullian to Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
, were published from 1844 to 1849, and volumes 74 to 217, from Pope Gregory I

Pope Gregory I

Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
to Innocent III, from 1849 to 1855. Although the collection ends in 1216, after the death of Innocent III, Migne originally wanted to include documents all the way up to the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in Europe. It is thought to have begun in 1517 with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and may be considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648....
; this task proved too great, but some later commentaries or documents associated with earlier works were included.

The printing plates for the Patrologia were destroyed by fire in 1868, but with help from the Garnier printing house they were restored and new editions were printed, beginning in the 1880s. These reprints did not always correspond exactly with the original series both in quality and internal arrangement, and caution should be exercised when referencing to the PL in general.

Notable authors in the Patrologia

These are some of the more notable authors included in the Patrologia, with the volume(s) in which they appear, some at least as notable for their own deeds/actions as for their works.

Most of the works are ecclesiastic in nature, but there are also documents of literary, historical or linguistic (such as the Gothic

Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct language Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic languages with a sizable corpus....
bible in vol. 18) interest.

Secular rulers

Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus (155)
crusader king Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin I of Jerusalem

Baldwin I of Jerusalem, formerly Baldwin I of Edessa, born Baldwin of Boulogne , 1058? - April 2, 1118, was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who became the first County of Edessa and then the second ruler and first titled Kingdom of Jerusalem....
(155)
Roman emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Constantine I (8)
Frankish emperor Charlemagne
Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
(97-98)
king Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald

File:Charles le Chauve denier Bourges after 848.jpgCharles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith, daughter of Welf....
(124)
crusader Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon

Godfrey of Bouillon was a medieval knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087....
(155)
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Saint Henry II , called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy Roman Empire of the Ottonian dynasty from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later....
(140)
king Lotharius I
Lothair I

Lothair I , king of Italy and crowned Carolingian Empire King of Italy, Emperor of the Romans and was Empire of the Franks .Lothair was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of Ingerman of Hesbaye, duke of Hesbaye....
(97-98)
king Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781 and Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks with his father, Charlemagne, from 813....
(104)
king Louis VII of France
Louis VII of France

Louis VII, called the Younger or the Young, , was List of French monarchs, the son and successor of Louis VI of France . He ruled from 1137 until his death....
(155)

Popes

Pope Adrian IV
Pope Adrian IV

Pope Adrian IV , born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.Adrian IV is the only England who has occupied the papal chair....
(188)
Pope Alexander III
Pope Alexander III

Pope Alexander III , born Rolando of Siena, was Pope from 1159 to 1181....
(200)
Pope Anastasius IV
Pope Anastasius IV

Pope Anastasius IV , born Corrado di Suburra , was Pope from 1153 to 1154....
(188)
Pope Benedict I
Pope Benedict I

Pope Benedict I was pope from June 2, 575 to July 30, 579.Benedict was the son of a man named Bonifacius, and was called Bonosus by the Greek peoples....
(72)
Pope Benedict III
Pope Benedict III

Benedict III was Pope from September 29, 855 to April 17, 858.Little is known of Benedict's life before his papacy. He was educated and lived in Rome and was cardinal priest of S....
(115)
Pope Boniface II
Pope Boniface II

Pope Boniface II was pope from 530 to 532.He was by birth an Ostrogoths, the first Germanic peoples pope, and he owed his appointment to the influence of the Gothic king Athalaric....
(64)
Pope Calixtus II (163)
Pope Celestine III
Pope Celestine III

Pope Celestine III , born Giacinto Bobone, was elected Pope on March 30, 1191, and reigned until his death. He was born into the noble Orsini family, though he was only a deacon before becoming Pope....
(206)
Pope Clement III
Pope Clement III

Pope Clement III , born Paulino Scolari, was elected Pope on December 19, 1187 and reigned until his death.A Roman by birth, he was made by Pope Alexander III successively archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica , cardinal-deacon of Sergio e Bacco , and finally cardinal bishop of Palestrina in December 1180....
(204)
Pope Cornelius
Pope Cornelius

Pope Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March, 251 to his martyrdom in June 253....
(3)
Pope Eugene III
Pope Eugene III

Pope Eugene III , born Bernardo dei Paganelli di Montemagno, was Pope from 1145 to 1153....
(180)
Pope Felix III
Pope Felix III

Pope Saint Felix III was pope from March 13, 483 to 492....
(58)
Pope Felix IV
Pope Felix IV

Pope Saint Felix IV was pope from 526 to 530.He came from Samnium, the son of one Castorius. Following the death of Pope John I at the hands of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, the papal voters gave in to the king's demands and chose Cardinal Felix as Pope....
(64)
Pope Gelasius I
Pope Gelasius I

Pope Saint Gelasius I was pope from 492 until his death in 496. He was the third and last List of African popes in the Roman Catholic Church, Gelasius was a prolific writer whose style placed him on the cusp between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages....
(59)
Pope Gelasius II
Pope Gelasius II

Gelasius II , born Giovanni Coniulo, was pope from January 24, 1118 to January 29, 1119....
(163)
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I

Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
(75-79)
Pope Gregory IV
Pope Gregory IV

Gregory IV, pope , was chosen to succeed Pope Valentine in December 827, on which occasion he recognized the supremacy of the Franks emperor Louis the Pious in the most unequivocal manner....
(106)
Pope Gregory VIII
Pope Gregory VIII

Pope Gregory VIII , born Alberto di Morra, was Pope from October 25, 1187 until his death....
(202)
Pope Hilarius
Pope Hilarius

Pope Saint Hilarius was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to February 28, 468. He was Canonization as a saint after his death.The Sardinian archdeacon of Rome, Hilarius was elected bishop of Rome probably November 17, 461, and was consecrated November 19, 461 and died on February 28 , 468....
(58)
Pope Honorius II
Pope Honorius II

Pope Honorius II , born Lamberto Scannabecchi , was pope from December 21, 1124, to February 13, 1130.Lamberto came from a simple rural background at Fiagnano Castle, near Imola in present day Italy....
(166)
Pope Hormisdas
Pope Hormisdas

Pope Saint Hormisdas was pope from July 20, 514 to 523.He was born at Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy. Saint Hormisdas was a widower and a Rome deacon at the time of his accession to the papal throne....
(63)
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III was born in either 1160 or 1161, and died on July 16, 1216 at Perugia. He was born with the name Lotario de Conti, and he was pope from January 8, 1198 until his death....
(214-217)
Pope John II
Pope John II

Pope John II was pope from 533 to 535.He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill....
(72)
Pope John VI
Pope John VI

John VI, pope from October 30, 701 to January 11, 705, was a native of Greece, and succeeded to the papal chair two months after the death of Pope Sergius I....
(89)
Pope John XIII
Pope John XIII

John XIII of Crescenzi family served as Pope from October 1, 965 until his death.Born in Rome, he spent his career in the papal court. He was elected Pope John XIII five months after the death of Pope Leo VIII , as a compromise candidate, with the agreement of Emperor Otto I ....
(135)
Pope John XIX
Pope John XIX

John XIX , born Romanus, was Pope from 1024 to 1032.He succeeded his brother, Pope Benedict VIII , both being members of the powerful house of counts of Tusculum....
(141)
Pope Innocent I
Pope Innocent I

Pope Saint Innocent I was pope from 401 to March 12, 417.He was, according to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, the son of a man called Innocens of Albano; but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I , whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ....
(20)
Pope Leo I
Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I, or Pope Saint Leo the Great, was pope from 29 September, 440 to 10 November, 461.He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the earliest pope of the Roman Catholic Church to have received the title "the Great"....
(54-56)
Pope Leo II
Pope Leo II

Pope Saint Leo II was Pope from August 17, 682 to June 28, 683....
(96)
Pope Leo IV
Pope Leo IV

Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855.A Rome by birth, he was unanimously chosen to succeed Pope Sergius II. When he was elected, on April 10, 847, he was cardinal of Santi Quattro Coronati, and had been subdeacon of Pope Gregory IV and archpriest under his predecessor....
(115)
Pope Nicholas I
Pope Nicholas I

Pope Nicholas I, , or Nicholas the Great, reigned from April 24, 858 until his death. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy and its position among the Christian nations of Western Europe, and is considered a saint....
(119)
Pope Paschal II
Pope Paschal II

Paschal II, born Ranierius, was Pope from August 13, 1099, until his death. A monk of the Abbey of Cluny, he was created cardinal priest of the Titulus Basilica di San Clemente by Pope Gregory VII about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to Pope Urban II on August 19, 1099....
(163)
Pope Pelagius II
Pope Pelagius II

Pope Pelagius II was pope from 579 to 590.He was a native of Rome, but probably of Ostrogoths descent, as his father's name was Winigild.Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantine Empire were of little help, forcing Pelagius to "buy" a truce and turn to the Franks, who invaded Italy, but left...
(72)
Pope Sergius I
Pope Sergius I

Pope Saint Sergius I was Pope from 687–701. He came from an Antiochene Syrian family which had settled at Palermo in Sicily, and owed his election as Pope Conon's successor to skillful intrigues against Paschalis and Theodorus, the other candidates....
(89)
Pope Sergius II
Pope Sergius II

Sergius II was Pope from January, 844-January 24, 847.On the death of Gregory IV the archdeacon Antipope John VIII was proclaimed pope by popular acclamation, while the nobility elected Sergius, a Rome of noble birth....
(106)
Pope Simplicius
Pope Simplicius

Pope Saint Simplicius was pope from 468 to March 10, 483.He was born in Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the Liber Pontificalis....
(58)
Pope Stephen I
Pope Stephen I

Pope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May, 254 to 2 August, 257.Of Rome birth but of Greek people ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor....
(3)
Pope Sylvester II (139)
Pope Leo IX
Pope Leo IX

Pope Saint Leo IX , born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg , was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with the feast day of April 19....
(143)
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Gregory VII

Pope Saint Gregory VII , born Hildebrand of Soana , was papacy from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor affirming the primacy of the papal authority and the new canon law governing...
(148)
Pope Victor III
Pope Victor III

Pope Victor III , born Daufer , Latinised Dauferius, was the Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino....
(149)
Pope Urban II
Pope Urban II

Pope Urban II , born Otho de Lagery , was Pope from March 12, 1088 until his death. He is most known for starting the First Crusade and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court, to help run the Church....
(151)
Pope Urban III
Pope Urban III

Pope Urban III , born Uberto Crivelli, was Pope from 1185 to 1187. He was made Catholic Cardinal and archbishop of Milan by Pope Lucius III, whom he succeeded on November 25, 1185....
(202)

Other bishops

Absalon
Absalon

Absalon was a Denmark archbishop and statesman. He was the son of Asser Rig of Fjenneslev , at whose castle he and his brother Esbj?rn were brought up along with the young prince Valdemar, afterwards King Valdemar I of Denmark....
, bishop of Roskilde, Danish statesman and archbishop of Lund (209)
Adalberon, bishop of Laon
Adalberon, Bishop of Laon

Adalberon, or Ascelin was a France bishop and poet. He was a son of Reginar of Bastogne, and a nephew of Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims....
(141)
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne

Saint Aldhelm , Abbot of Malmesbury of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature scholar, was born before the middle of the 7th century....
(89)
bishop Saint Ambrose of Milan (14-17)
archishop Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury

Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theology, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109....
(158-159)
bishop Anselm of Lucca
Anselm of Lucca

Saint Anselm of Lucca the Younger was an Italian bishop, a prominent figure in the Investiture Controversy and in the fighting in Central Italy between the forces of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, the papal champion, and those of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor....
(149)
bishop Saint Augustine of Hippo (32-47)
bishop Avitus of Vienne
Avitus of Vienne

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, Saint Avitus, was Ancient Diocese of Vienne in Gaul .Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family in the kinship of Emperor Avitus....
(59)
bishop Baldric of Dol
Baldric of Dol

Baldric of Dol was abbot of Bourgueil from 1079 to 1106, then bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne from 1107 until his death.After a course of studies at the school of Angers, he entered the Abbey of Bourgueil in Anjou, where he became abbot in 1079....
-en-Bretagne (166)
Saint Cassian of Imola, bishop of Brescia (49-50)
bishop of Poitiers Gilbert de la Porrée
Gilbert de la Porrée

Gilbert de la Porr?e, also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis was a scholasticism logician and theology....
(64)
bishop Saint Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
(71)
bishop Saint Hilary of Arles
Hilary of Arles

Saint Hilary of Arles was a bishop of Arles.In early youth he entered the abbey of L?rins Abbey then presided over by his kinsman Saint Honoratus , and succeeded Honoratus in the bishopric of Arles in 429....
(50)
bishop Saint Hilary of Poitiers
Hilary of Poitiers

Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Malleus Arianorum" and the "Athanasius of Alexandria of the West"....
, Doctor of the Church
Doctor of the Church

Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their additions to theological or doctrinal matters....
(9-10)
bishop Saint Isidore of Seville
Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages....
(81-84)
bishop Ivo of Chartres
Ivo of Chartres

Saint 'Ivo of Chartres' was the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death and an important canon lawyer during the Investiture Crisis....
(161-162)
bishop of Chartres John of Salisbury
John of Salisbury

John of Salisbury , English author, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, was born at Salisbury, England.Beyond the fact that he was of Anglo-Saxons, not of Normans extraction, and applied to himself the cognomen of Parvus, "short," or "small," few details are known regarding his early life; but from his own statements it is gathered that he...
(199)
Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
Lanfranc
Lanfranc

Lanfranc was Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Lombards by extraction....
(150)
bishop Liutprand of Cremona
Liutprand of Cremona

Liutprand was a Lombards historian and author, and Bishop of Cremona.He was born into a prominent family of Pavia towards the beginning of the 10th century....
(136)
bishop Saint Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours

Saint Martin of Tours , was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Roman Catholic Church saints....
(18)
bishop of Paris Maurice de Sully
Maurice de Sully

Maurice de Sully was Bishop of Paris from 1160 until his death.He was born of humble parents at Sully-sur-Loire , near Orl?ans, at the beginning of the twelfth century....
(200)
bishop Odo of Bayeux (155)
missionary bishop Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick , said to have been born Maewyn Succat , was a Roman Britain-born Christianity missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba....
(53)
bishop Saint Paulinus of Nola
Paulinus of Nola

Saint Paulinus of Nola or Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was a Roman senate who converted to a severe monasticism in 394. He eventually became Bishop of Nola, helped to resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I, and was recognized as a saint....
(61)
bishop of Paris Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; was a scholasticism and bishop and author of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum....
(191-192)
archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
Theodore of Tarsus
Theodore of Tarsus

Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury with major scholarly achievements....
(99)
bishop Thietmar of Merseburg
Thietmar of Merseburg

Thietmar of Merseburg , was bishop of Merseburg and a Germany chronicler....
(139)
archbishop of Canterbury Saint Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to his death. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion....
(190)
missionary bishop Ulfilas
Ulfilas

Ulfilas, or Gothic language Wulfila , bishop, missionary, and bible translator, was a Goths or half-Goth who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy....
, bible translator into Gothic
Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct language Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic languages with a sizable corpus....
(18)
archbishop William of Tyre
William of Tyre

William of Tyre was archbishop of Tyre and a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages....
(201)

Other clerics

abbot Abbo of Fleury
Abbo of Fleury

Abbo of Fleury , also known as Abbon or Saint Abbo was a monk, and later abbot, of the Benedictine monastery of Fleury sur Loire near Orl?ans, France....
(139)
Adémar de Chabannes
Adémar de Chabannes

Ad?mar de Chabannes was an eleventh century monk, a historian, who wrote the first annals that had been compiled in Aquitaine since Late Antiquity, as well as a musical composer and a successful forgery....
(141)
Alger of Liège
Alger of Liège

Alger of Li?ge , known also as Alger of Cluny and Algerus Magister, a learned France priest who lived in the first half of the 12th century.He was first a deacon of the St Bartholomew's Church, Li?ge at Li?ge , his native town, and was then appointed to the cathedral church of Lambert of Maastricht....
(180)
archdeacon
Archdeacon

A position of archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and in some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop....
Anselm of Laon
Anselm of Laon

Anselm of Laon was a France theology.Remembered in the century after his death as "Anselmus" or "Anselm", his name was more properly "Ansellus" or, in Modern French, "Anseau."...
(162)
abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane
Benedict of Aniane

Saint Benedict of Aniane , born Witiza and called the Second Benedict, was a Benedictine monk and monastic reformer, who left a large imprint on the religious practice of the Carolingian Empire....
(103)
abbot Saint Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia

Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
(66)
abbot Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercians was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order....
, Doctor of the Church
Doctor of the Church

Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their additions to theological or doctrinal matters....
(182-185)
presbyter Coelius Sedulius
Coelius Sedulius

Coelius Sedulius, was a Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century. He is termed a presbyter by Isidore of Seville and in the Gelasian decree....
, poet (19)
monk Dionysius Exiguus
Dionysius Exiguus

Dionysius Exiguus was a sixth century monk born in Scythia Minor, in what is now the territory of Dobruja, Romania, and a member of the so called "Scythian monks" community....
(Dennis the Little or Dennis the Short) (67)
Dudon or Dudo of Saint-Quentin
Dudo of Saint-Quentin

Dudo, or Dudon was a Normans historian, and dean of Saint-Quentin, France, where he was born about 965. Sent in 986 by Albert I, Count of Vermandois, on an errand to Richard I of Normandy, he succeeded in his mission, and, having made a very favorable impression at the Norman court, spent some years in that country....
, dean
Dean (religion)

A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church....
of Saint-Quentin (141)
Helinand of Froidmont
Helinand of Froidmont

Helinand of Froidmont was a The Middle Ages poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer....
(212)
Gildas
Gildas

Saint Gildas was a 6th century Britons cleric. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christianity church in the British Isles during the 6th century....
of Rhuys and Llancarfan (69)
monk Honorius of Autun (172)
monk Hugh of St. Victor, thomist philosopher (175-177)
abbot Saint Odo of Cluny
Odo of Cluny

Saint Odo of Cluny , a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy....
(133)
Benedictine monk Otloh of St. Emmeram
Otloh of St. Emmeram

Otloh of St Emmeram was a Benedictine monk of St. Emmeram's Abbey in Regensburg, known as a scholar and educator....
(146)
Petrus Comestor
Petrus Comestor

Petrus Comestor was a France theological writer ....
(198)
Peter Tudebode
Peter Tudebode

Peter Tudebode was a Poitou priest who was part of the First Crusade. He wrote an account of the crusade, Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere, including an eye-witness account of the Siege of Antioch, edited in volume 155 of the Patrologia Latina....
(155)
uncanonized Saint Peter the Venerable
Peter the Venerable

Peter the Venerable , also known as Peter of Montboissier, Abbot of Cluny of the Rule of Saint Benedict abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne , France....
, abbot of Cluny
Abbot of Cluny

The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of Cluny Abbey in medieval France. The following is a list.List of abbots...
(189)
abbot Regino of Prüm
Regino of Prüm

Reginon or Regino of Pr?m was a Benedictine abbot and List of historians#Medieval historians/chroniclers....
(132)
prior Richard of St. Victor
Richard of St. Victor

Richard of Saint Victor , was one of the most important Christian mysticism theology of 12th century Paris, then the intellectual center of Europe....
(196)
Cistercian abbot Robert of Molesme
Robert of Molesme

Saint Robert of Molesme was a Christianity saint and abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order in France....
(157)
Robert the Monk
Robert the Monk

Robert was a chronicler of the First Crusade. He did not participate in the expedition, but rewrote the Gesta Francorum at the request of his abbot, who was appalled at the 'rustic' style of the Gesta....
(155)
monk Rufinus of Aquileia, translator (21)
Abbot Suger
Abbot Suger

Suger was one of the last France abbot-statesmen, a historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture.Suger was born into a poor family and in 1091 was brought to the nearby Saint Denis Basilica for education....
of Saint-Denis (186)
Orderic Vitalis
Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis was an English historians in the Middle Ages who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and England....
(188)
monk William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury , English historians in the Middle Ages, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father was Normans and his mother English....
, historian (179)

Others

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Tertullian
Tertullian

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian, was a prolific and controversial early Christian author, and the first to write Christian Latin literature....
(volumes 1-2)
Marcus Minucius Felix (3)
Novatian (3)
Cyprian
Cyprian

Saint Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important early Christianity writer. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa during the Classical Period, perhaps at Carthage, where he received an excellent classical education....
(3-4)
Arnobius
Arnobius

Arnobius of Sicca was an Early Christian apologetics, during the reign of Diocletian . According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca Veneria , a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa , and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream....
(5)
Lactantius
Lactantius

Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author ....
(6-7)
Gaius Marius Victorinus
Gaius Marius Victorinus

Gaius Marius Victorinus , Ancient Rome grammarian, rhetorician and neo-Platonic philosopher, an African by birth, was at the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II....
(8)
Eusebius of Vercelli (12)
Lucifer Calaritanus (13)
Symmachus
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus , the cultured and prominent son of a prominent father, Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, in the patrician gens Aurelia, held the offices of proconsul of Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391....
(18)
Saint Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus

Sulpicius Severus was a Christianity writer and native of Aquitania. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours....
(20)
Pelagius
Pelagius

Pelagius was an Asceticism who denied the doctrine of original sin, later developed by Augustine of Hippo, and was declared a heresy by the Councils of Carthage....
(21)
Saint Jerome
Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome is a Christian church father, best known for translating the Bible into Latin.Saint Jerome may also refer to:* Saint Jerome Emiliani , Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers...
(22-30)
Orosius
Orosius

Paulus Orosius was a Christianity historian, theology and disciple of Augustine of Hippo who came from Gallaecia , probably from the capital city Bracara Augusta....
(31)
Saint Vincent of Lérins
Vincent of Lérins

Saint Vincent of L?rins was a Gaul author of early Christianity writings.In earlier life he had been engaged in secular pursuits, whether civil or military is not clear, though the term he uses, "secularis militia," might possibly imply the latter....
(50)
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine
Prosper of Aquitaine

Saint Prosper of Aquitaine , a Christian writer and disciple of Saint Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle....
(51)
Salvian
Salvian

Salvian, was a Christian writer of the 5th century, born probably at Cologne, some time between 400 and 405....
(53)
False Decretals (56)
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (60)
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo?thius was a Christian or pagan philosopher of the 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many Roman consul....
(63-64)
Magnus Felix Ennodius
Magnus Felix Ennodius

Magnus Felix Ennodius was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.He was one of four fifth to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont , Ruricius bishop of Limoges and Avitus of Vienne, bishop of Vienne ....
, Latin rhetorician and poet (63)
Cassiodorus
Cassiodorus

Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator , commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman Empire statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths....
(69-70)
Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Fortunatus

Saint Venantius Fortunatus or Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a Latin poetry and hymnodist, and a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church....
(88)
Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in the kingdom of Wessex , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century....
(89)
Bede
Bede

Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
(90-95)
Alcuin
Alcuin

Alcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was a scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria....
(100-101)
Einhard
Einhard

Einhard was a Franks courtier, a dedicated servant of Charlemagne, of whom he wrote his famous biography, Vita Karoli Magni, and Louis the Pious....
(104)
Theodulf (105)
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius , also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Franks Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a Theology....
(107-112)
Walafrid Strabo
Walafrid Strabo

Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo , was a Franks monk and theology writer....
(113-114)
Radbertus
Radbertus

St. Paschasius Radbertus , was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, and Abbot of Corbie who wrote numerous treatises, expositions and biographies during the Frankish Carolingian era....
(120)
Ratramnus
Ratramnus

Ratramnus was a Franks theological controversialist of the second half of the ninth century.He was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Corbie near Amiens; beyond this fact very little is known about him....
(121)
Gottschalk
Gottschalk (theologian)

Gottschalk , a theology, was born near Mainz, and was given to the monastic life from infancy by his parents. His father was a Saxon people, Count Bern....
(121)
John the Scot
Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Johannes Scotus Eriugena , was an Ireland theologian, Neoplatonism philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius....
(122)
Hincmar (125-126)
Pseudo-Isidore
Pseudo-Isidore

Pseudo-Isidore is the pseudonym given to the scholar or group of scholars responsible for the Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals, the most extensive and influential set of forgery found in medieval Canon law ....
(130)
Flodoard
Flodoard

Flodoard was a France chronicler.He was born at ?pernay, and educated at Reims in the cathedral school which had been established by Archbishop Fulcon ....
(135)
Hroswitha of Gandersheim
Hrosvit

Hrotsvitha, also known as Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, Hrosvit, and Roswitha was a 10th century Germans canoness of the Benedictine Order, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Bad Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony....
(137)
Dunstan
Dunstan

Dunstan was an abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a bishop of Worcester, a bishop of London, and an archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonization as a saint....
(137)
Aimoin
Aimoin

Aimoin , France chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life....
(139)
Fulbert of Chartres
Fulbert of Chartres

Fulbert of ChartresFulbert of Chartres was the bishop of the Cathedral of Chartres from 1006 till 1028. He was a teacher at the Cathedral school there, he was responsible for the advancement of the celebration of the Feast day of ?Nativity of the Virgin?, and he was responsible for one of the many reconstructions of the Cathedral....
(141)
Helgaud
Helgaud

Helgaud or Helgaldus , France chronicler, was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Fleury.Little else is known about him save that he was chaplain to the French king, Robert II of France, whose life he wrote....
(141)
Hermannus Contractus
Hermannus Contractus

Hermann of Reichenau was an 11th century scholar, composer, music theory, mathematician, and astronomer. Hermannus was a son of the duke of Altshausen....
(also called Hermann of Reichenau or Hermannus Augiensis)(143)
Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen was one of the most important Germany medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ....
(146)
Marianus Scotus
Marianus Scotus

Marianus Scotus , was an Iro-Scottish monks and chronicler , was an Ireland by birth, and called M?el Brigte, or Devotee of Brigid.He was educated by a certain Tigernach, and having become a monk in 1052 he crossed over to the continent of Europe in 1056, and his subsequent life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and...
(147)
Bruno of Chartreuse
Bruno of Cologne

Saint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims, and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II....
(152-153)
Fulcher of Chartres
Fulcher of Chartres

Fulcher of Chartres was a chronicler of the First Crusade. He wrote in Latin language....
(155)
Guibert of Nogent
Guibert of Nogent

Guibert of Nogent was a Benedictine historian, theology and author of autobiography memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries....
(155)
Raymond of Aguilers
Raymond of Aguilers

Raymond of Aguilers was a chronicler of the First Crusade . He followed the Provence army of crusaders, guided by count Raymond IV of Toulouse, to Jerusalem....
(155)
Walter the Chancellor
Walter the Chancellor

Walter the Chancellor was a French or Norman crusader and author of the twelfth century.He served as Officers of the Principality of Antioch and wrote "Bella Antiochena" about the history of Principality of Antioch from 1114-1122, mostly during the reign of Roger of Salerno....
(155)
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was a medieval France Scholasticism philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Heloise has become legendary....
(178)
Gratian
Gratian (jurist)

Gratian, was a 12th century Canon law yer from Bologna. He is sometimes wrongly referred to as Franciscus Gratianus, or Johannes Gratianus, or Giovanni Graziano....
(187)
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German people abbess, author, counselor, Linguistics, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, visionary and composer....
(197)
John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall

John of Cornwall, in Latin Johannes Cornubiensis or Johannes de Sancto Germano was a Christianism scholar and teacher, who was living in Paris about 1176....
(199)
Peter of Blois
Peter of Blois

Peter of Blois or Petrus Blesensis was a France poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin. Peter studied law in Bologna and theology in Paris....
, French poet and diplomat (207)
Walter of Châtillon
Walter of Chatillon

Walter of Ch?tillon was a 12th-century France writer and theology who wrote in the Latin. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris....
(209)
Alain de Lille
Alain de Lille

Alain de Lille , France theology and poet, was born, probably in Lille, some years before 1128....
(210)
Helinand of Froidmont
Helinand of Froidmont

Helinand of Froidmont was a The Middle Ages poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer....
(212)

Voll.	Auctores
1-2	Tertullian Tertullian Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian, was a prolific and controversial early Christian author, and the first to write Christian Latin literature.... us
3-5	Minucius Felix, Dionysius Alexandrinus, Cornelius papa Pope Cornelius Pope Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March, 251 to his martyrdom in June 253.... , Novatianus, Stephanus I Pope Stephen I Pope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May, 254 to 2 August, 257.Of Rome birth but of Greek people ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor.... , Cyprianus Carthaginensis Cyprian Saint Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important early Christianity writer. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa during the Classical Period, perhaps at Carthage, where he received an excellent classical education.... , Arnobius Afer Arnobius Arnobius of Sicca was an Early Christian apologetics, during the reign of Diocletian . According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca Veneria , a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa , and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream.... , Dionysius Alexandrinus, Commodianus Gazaeus Commodianus Commodianus was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about A.D. 250.The only ancient writers who mention him are Gennadius, presbyter of Massilia , in his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, and Pope Gelasius in De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, in which his works are classed as Apocryphi, probably on account of certain he...
6-7	Lactantius Lactantius Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author ....
8	Constantinus I Constantine I Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus , commonly known in English_language as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine , was Roman Emperor from 306, and the undisputed holder of that office from 324 until his death in 337.... , Victorinus Petavionensis
9-10	Hilarius Pictaviensis Hilary of Poitiers Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Malleus Arianorum" and the "Athanasius of Alexandria of the West"....
11	Zeno Veronensis Zeno of Verona Zeno of Verona, was either an early Christian Bishop of Verona or martyr. He is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.... , Optatus Milevitanus Saint Optatus Saint Optatus, sometimes anglicized as St. Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism....
12	Eusebius Vercellensis Eusebius of Vercelli Saint Eusebius of Vercelli was a Bishop and an Italy saint. Along with St Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against the Arianism heresy.... , Firmicus Maternus Julius Firmicus Maternus Julius Firmicus Maternus was a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of Constantine I and his successors....
13	Damasus Pope Damasus I Pope Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco , then part of the Western Roman Empire.... , Pacian Pacian Saint Pacian was a bishop of Barcelona during the fourth century. He was bishop from about 365 AD to 391 AD, succeeding Praetextatus , who had attended a church council at Sardica in 347 AD and who is the first recorded bishop of Barcelona.... us, Lucifer Calaritanus Saint Lucifer This is an article about a Catholic saint. For belief systems which are concerned with the biblical Lucifer, see Luciferianism.Lucifer or Lucifer Calaritanus was a bishop of Cagliari in Sardinia and Christianity saint known for his passionate opposition to Arianism....
14-17	Ambrosius Mediolanensis
18	Ulfilas Gothorum Ulfilas Ulfilas, or Gothic language Wulfila , bishop, missionary, and bible translator, was a Goths or half-Goth who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy.... , Symmachus Pope Symmachus Pope Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514.He was born on Sardinia, the son of Fortunatus. He was baptized in Rome, where he became archdeacon of the Church under Pope Anastasius II.... , Martinus Turonensis Martin of Tours Saint Martin of Tours , was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Roman Catholic Church saints.... , Tichonius
19	Juvencus Juvencus Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus , known as Juvencus or Juvenk, was a Spanish people Christian and composer of Latin poetry in the 4th century.... , Sedulius Coelius Coelius Sedulius Coelius Sedulius, was a Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century. He is termed a presbyter by Isidore of Seville and in the Gelasian decree.... , Optatianus Publilius Optatianus Porfirius Publilius Optatianus Porfirius was a Latin poet, possibly a native of Africa Province.He flourished during the 4th century. Porfirius has been identified with Publilius Optatianus, who was praefectus urbi , and is by some authorities included amongst the Christian poets.... , Severus Rhetor, Faltonia Proba Faltonia Betitia Proba Faltonia Betitia Proba was a Roman Empire Christianity poetess from Orte....
20	Sulpicius Severus Sulpicius Severus Sulpicius Severus was a Christianity writer and native of Aquitania. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours.... , Paulinus Mediolanensis, Faustus Manichaeus, Innocentius I Pope Innocent I Pope Saint Innocent I was pope from 401 to March 12, 417.He was, according to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, the son of a man called Innocens of Albano; but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I , whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ....
21	Rufinus Aquileiensis Tyrannius Rufinus Tyrannius Rufinus or Rufinus of Aquileia was a monk, List of historians, and Theology. He is most known as a Translation of Greek language Church Fathers material into Latin—especially the work of Origen.... , Pelagius haeresiarcha Pelagius Pelagius was an Asceticism who denied the doctrine of original sin, later developed by Augustine of Hippo, and was declared a heresy by the Councils of Carthage....
22-30	Hieronymus Stridonensis Jerome Saint Jerome was a Christian priest and Christian apologetics best known for translating the Vulgate. He is recognized by the Catholic Church as a canonized saint and Doctor of the Church, and his version of the Bible is still an important text in Catholicism....
31	Flavius Lucius Dexter Flavius Lucius Dexter Flavius Lucius Dexter was a figure of the late fourth century, reported as a historian, and a friend of St Jerome. He was the son of St Pacian, an imperial office-holder, and dedicatee of a work of Jerome, the De Viris Illustribus .... , Paulus Orosius Orosius Paulus Orosius was a Christianity historian, theology and disciple of Augustine of Hippo who came from Gallaecia , probably from the capital city Bracara Augusta....
32-47	Augustinus Hipponensis
48	Marius Mercator Marius Mercator Marius Mercator was a Catholic ecclesiastical writer.In 417 or 418 he was in Rome where he wrote two anti-Pelagian treatises, which he submitted to Augustine of Hippo....
49-50	Joannes Cassianus John Cassian Saint John Cassian , John the Ascetic, or John Cassian the Roman, is a Christian theology celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings....
51	Prosper Aquitanus Prosper of Aquitaine Saint Prosper of Aquitaine , a Christian writer and disciple of Saint Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle....
52	Petrus Chrysologus Peter Chrysologus Saint Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 AD until his death. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729....
53	Mamertus Claudianus Claudianus Mamertus Claudianus Mamertus was a Gallo-Roman theologian and the brother of St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne.Descended probably from one of the leading families of the country, Claudianus Mamertus relinquished his worldly goods and embraced the monastic life.... , Salvianus Massiliensis Salvian Salvian, was a Christian writer of the 5th century, born probably at Cologne, some time between 400 and 405.... , Arnobius junior Arnobius the Younger Arnobius , Christian priest or bishop in Gaul, flourished about 460.He is the author of a mystical and allegorical commentary on the Psalms, first published by Erasmus in 1522, and by him attributed to the Arnobius the Elder.... , Patricius Hiberniae Saint Patrick Saint Patrick , said to have been born Maewyn Succat , was a Roman Britain-born Christianity missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba....
54-56	Leo I Pope Leo I Pope Leo I, or Pope Saint Leo the Great, was pope from 29 September, 440 to 10 November, 461.He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the earliest pope of the Roman Catholic Church to have received the title "the Great"....
57	Maximus Taurinensis Maximus of Turin Saint Maximus of Turin was a bishop and theological writer. Maximus is believed to have been a native of Rhaetia.Only two dates are historically established in his life....
58	Hilarus papa Pope Hilarius Pope Saint Hilarius was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to February 28, 468. He was Canonization as a saint after his death.The Sardinian archdeacon of Rome, Hilarius was elected bishop of Rome probably November 17, 461, and was consecrated November 19, 461 and died on February 28 , 468.... , Simplicius papa Pope Simplicius Pope Saint Simplicius was pope from 468 to March 10, 483.He was born in Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the Liber Pontificalis.... , Felix III Pope Felix III Pope Saint Felix III was pope from March 13, 483 to 492....
59	Gelasius I Pope Gelasius I Pope Saint Gelasius I was pope from 492 until his death in 496. He was the third and last List of African popes in the Roman Catholic Church, Gelasius was a prolific writer whose style placed him on the cusp between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.... , Avitus Viennensis Avitus of Vienne Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, Saint Avitus, was Ancient Diocese of Vienne in Gaul .Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family in the kinship of Emperor Avitus.... , Faustinus Faustinus of Brescia Saint Faustinus was bishop of Brescia from c.360, succeeding Ursicinus of Brescia. His Calendar of saints is 16 February.Tradition claims that he was a descendant of Saints Faustinus and Jovita, and that he compiled the Acts of these two martyrs....
60	Aurelius Prudentius, Dracontius
61	Paulinus Nolanus Paulinus of Nola Saint Paulinus of Nola or Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus was a Roman senate who converted to a severe monasticism in 394. He eventually became Bishop of Nola, helped to resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I, and was recognized as a saint.... , Orientius Orientius Saint Orientius was a Christian Latin poet of the fifth century.... , Auspicius Tullensis
62	Paschasius Diaconus, Sanctus Symmachus, Petrus Diaconus, Vigilius Tapsensis, Leo I Magnus, Concilium Chalcedonense, Athanasius, Rusticus Helpidius, Eugyppius Africae
63	Boetius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo?thius was a Christian or pagan philosopher of the 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many Roman consul.... , Ennodius Felix Felix Ennodius Felix Ennodius was a Proconsul of Africa Province in ca 420 or 423.His father, born ca 380, might have been the son of Ennodius , Proconsul of Africa Province.... , Trifolius presbyter Trifolius presbyter Trifolius was a Christian theologian of the sixth century. He is known for his Epistula ad beatum Faustum senatorem contra Ioannem Scytham monachum of 519/20, written to the Roman senator Faustus.... , Hormisdas I Pope Hormisdas Pope Saint Hormisdas was pope from July 20, 514 to 523.He was born at Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy. Saint Hormisdas was a widower and a Rome deacon at the time of his accession to the papal throne.... , Elpis Elpis In Greek mythology, Elpis was the personification of hope, perhaps a child of Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumor. She was depicted as a young woman, usually carrying flowers or cornucopia in her hands....
64	Boetius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo?thius was a Christian or pagan philosopher of the 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many Roman consul....
65	Fulgentius Ruspensis Fulgentius of Ruspe Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe was bishop of the city of Ruspe, North Africa, in the 5th and 6th century who was canonization as a Christianity saint.... , Felix IV Pope Felix IV Pope Saint Felix IV was pope from 526 to 530.He came from Samnium, the son of one Castorius. Following the death of Pope John I at the hands of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, the papal voters gave in to the king's demands and chose Cardinal Felix as Pope.... , Bonifacius II Pope Boniface II Pope Boniface II was pope from 530 to 532.He was by birth an Ostrogoths, the first Germanic peoples pope, and he owed his appointment to the influence of the Gothic king Athalaric....
66	Benedictus pater monachorum Occidentalium Benedict of Nursia Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
67	Dionysius Exiguus Dionysius Exiguus Dionysius Exiguus was a sixth century monk born in Scythia Minor, in what is now the territory of Dobruja, Romania, and a member of the so called "Scythian monks" community.... , Viventiolus Lugdunensis Viventiolus Saint Viventiolus was the Bishop of Lyon, then Lugdunum, since the year of 514. Later canonized, his Feast Day is July 12. He was the son of Aquilinus , Nobleman at Lyon , schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris, the grandson of ...... , Trojanus Santonensis, Pontianus Africae Pontianus Africae Pontianus was a sixth century bishop from an African diocese , who was a figure in the Schism of the Three Chapters.He wrote a critical letter to Emperor Justinian in 544-5,in reply to a request for his signature to an edict of condemnation.... , Caesarius Arelatensis, Fulgentius Ferrandus Fulgentius Ferrandus Fulgentius Ferrandus was a canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century....
68	Primasius Adrumetanus, Arator Arator Arator was a sixth century Christian poet from Liguria in northwestern Italy. His best known work, De Actibus Apostolorum, is a verse history of the Twelve apostles.... , Nicetius Trevirensis Nicetius Saint Nicetius was a bishop of Trier, born in the latter part of the fifth century, exact date unknown; died in 563 or more probably 566.Saint Nicetius was the most important bishop of the ancient See of Trier, in the era when, after the disorders of the Migration Period, Frankish supremacy began in what had been Gaul.... , Aurelianus Arelatensis
69-70	Cassiodorus Cassiodorus Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator , commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman Empire statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths....
71	Gregorius Turonensis Gregory of Tours Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
72	Pelagius II Pope Pelagius II Pope Pelagius II was pope from 579 to 590.He was a native of Rome, but probably of Ostrogoths descent, as his father's name was Winigild.Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantine Empire were of little help, forcing Pelagius to "buy" a truce and turn to the Franks, who invaded Italy, but left... , Joannes II Pope John II Pope John II was pope from 533 to 535.He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill.... , Benedictus I Pope Benedict I Pope Benedict I was pope from June 2, 575 to July 30, 579.Benedict was the son of a man named Bonifacius, and was called Bonosus by the Greek peoples....
73-74	Vitae Patrum
75-76	Gregorius I Pope Gregory I Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
77	Gregorius I Pope Gregory I Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
78-79	Gregorius I Pope Gregory I Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
80	Auctores VI-VII saec. (Maximus Caesaraugustanus Episcopus, Eutropius Episcopus Eutropius of Valencia Eutropius of Valencia was a Spanish bishop. It was not till 589 that he became Bishop of Valencia, and his death cannot be set down earlier than 610.... , Tarra Monachus, Dinothus Abbas, Dynamus Patricius, Augustinus Apostolus Anglorum, SS Bonifacius IV, Concilium Romanum III, Bulgaranus, Paulus Emeritanus Diaconus, Tamaius De Vargas. Thomas, Gondemarus Rex Gothorum, Marcus Cassinensis, Warnaharius Lingonensis Episcopus, Columbanus Hibernus, Alphanus Beneventianus Episcopus, Aileranus Scoto Hibernus, Ethelbertus Anglorum, SS Adeodatus I, Sisebutus Gothorum, Bertichramnus Cenomanensis, Protandius Vesuntinus Archiepiscopus, SS Bonifacius V, Sonniatus Rhemensis Archiepiscopus, Verus Ruthenensis Episcopus, Chlotarius II Francorum Rex, SS Honorius I, Dagobertus Francorum Rex, Hadoinudus Cenomanensis Episcopus, Sulpicius Bituricensis Episcopus, Autbertus Cameracensis, SS Ioannes IV, Eutrandus Ticinensis Diaconus, Victor Carthaginensis Episcopus, Braulio Caesaraugustiani, Taio Caesaraugustianus Episcopus)
81-84	Isidorus Hispalensis Isidore of Seville Saint Isidore of Seville was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages....
85-86	Liturgia Mozarabica Mozarabic Rite The Mozarabic, Visigothic, or Hispanic Rite is a form of Catholicism worship within the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, and in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church ....
87	Auctores VII saec.
88	Venantius Fortunatus Venantius Fortunatus Saint Venantius Fortunatus or Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a Latin poetry and hymnodist, and a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.... , Crisconius Africanus
89	Sergius I Pope Sergius I Pope Saint Sergius I was Pope from 687–701. He came from an Antiochene Syrian family which had settled at Palermo in Sicily, and owed his election as Pope Conon's successor to skillful intrigues against Paschalis and Theodorus, the other candidates.... , Joannes VI Pope John VI John VI, pope from October 30, 701 to January 11, 705, was a native of Greece, and succeeded to the papal chair two months after the death of Pope Sergius I.... , Felix Ravennatensis, Bonifacius Moguntinus
90-95	Beda Bede Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
96	Hildefonsus Toletanus Ildephonsus of Toledo Saint Ildefonsus or Ildephonsus was the metropolitan bishop of Toledo from 657 until his death. He was a Visigoth and his Gothic language name was Hildefuns, which evolved into the Spanish language name Alfonso.... , Julianus Toletanus Julian of Toledo Julian of Toledo was born to Jewish parents in Toledo, Spain, Hispania, but raised Christian. He was well educated at the cathedral school, was a monk and later abbot at Agali, a spiritual student of Eugene II of Toledo, and archbishop of Toledo.... , Leo II Pope Leo II Pope Saint Leo II was Pope from August 17, 682 to June 28, 683....
97-98	Carolus Magnus Charlemagne Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe.... , Ludovicus I, Lotharius Lothair I Lothair I , king of Italy and crowned Carolingian Empire King of Italy, Emperor of the Romans and was Empire of the Franks .Lothair was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of Ingerman of Hesbaye, duke of Hesbaye.... , Rudolphus I
99	Paulinus Aquileiensis Saint Paulinus II Saint Paulinus II was an Italian ecclesiastic, scholar and poet who served as the Patriarch of Aquileia.Paulinus was born at Premariacco, near Cividale in the Friuli region of north-eastern Italy, probably of a Roman family during Lombard rule.... , Theodorus Cantuariensis Theodore of Tarsus Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury with major scholarly achievements....
100-101	Alcuin Alcuin Alcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was a scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.... us
102	Smaragdus S. Michaelis
103	Benedictus Anianensis Benedict of Aniane Saint Benedict of Aniane , born Witiza and called the Second Benedict, was a Benedictine monk and monastic reformer, who left a large imprint on the religious practice of the Carolingian Empire.... , Sedulius Scotus
104	Agobardus Lugdunensis Agobard Agobard was a Carolingian prelate and Archbishop of Lyon.We know nothing of his early life nor of his descent. In 813 he became coadjutor to Leidrad, Archbishop of Lyon.... , Eginhardus Einhard Einhard was a Franks courtier, a dedicated servant of Charlemagne, of whom he wrote his famous biography, Vita Karoli Magni, and Louis the Pious.... , Claudius Taurinensis Claudius of Turin Claudius of Turin was the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Turin from 817 until his death. He was a courtier of Louis the Pious and was a writer during the Carolingian Renaissance.... , Ludovicus Pius Louis the Pious Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781 and Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks with his father, Charlemagne, from 813....
105	Theodulfus Aurelianensis Theodulf of Orléans Theodulf of Orl?ans , was the Bishop of Orl?ans during the reign of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. He was a key member of the Carolingian Renaissance and an important figure during the many reforms of the church under Charlemagne, as well as the author of the Libri Carolini, "much the fullest statement of the Western attitude to re... , Eigil Fuldensis, Dungalus reclusus Saint Dungal The Irish monk Dungal lived at Saint-Denis, Pavia and Bobbio. He wrote a poem on wisdom and the liberal arts#History and advised Charlemagne on astronomical matters.... , Ermoldus Nigellus Ermoldus Nigellus Ermoldus Nigellus or Niger, translated Ermold the Black, also Ermoald, was a monk of Aquitaine, who accompanied Pippin I of Aquitaine, son of the Louis the Pious, on a campaign into Brittany in 824.... , Symphosius Amalarius
106	Gregorius IV Pope Gregory IV Gregory IV, pope , was chosen to succeed Pope Valentine in December 827, on which occasion he recognized the supremacy of the Franks emperor Louis the Pious in the most unequivocal manner.... , Sergius II Pope Sergius II Sergius II was Pope from January, 844-January 24, 847.On the death of Gregory IV the archdeacon Antipope John VIII was proclaimed pope by popular acclamation, while the nobility elected Sergius, a Rome of noble birth.... , Jonas Aurelianensis Jonas of Orléans Jonas was Bishop of Orl?ans and played a major political role during the reign of Emperor Louis the Pious.Jonas was born in Aquitaine. Probably a cleric by the 780s, he served at the court of Louis the Pious, who ruled as Duke of Aquitaine during the reign of his father, Charlemagne.... , Freculphus Lexoviensis Freculphus Freculphus, also known as Freculphus Lexoviensis or Freculphus of Lisieux, was a Franks Bishops of Lisieux, between 825 and 851, but is now known for his Chronicle, which is a source of information about the conversion of Gaul and Frankish history.... , Frotharius Tullensis
107-112	Rabanus Maurus Rabanus Maurus Rabanus Maurus Magnentius , also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Franks Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a Theology....
113-114	Walafridus Strabo Walafrid Strabo Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo , was a Franks monk and theology writer....
115	Leo IV Pope Leo IV Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855.A Rome by birth, he was unanimously chosen to succeed Pope Sergius II. When he was elected, on April 10, 847, he was cardinal of Santi Quattro Coronati, and had been subdeacon of Pope Gregory IV and archpriest under his predecessor.... , Benedictus III Pope Benedict III Benedict III was Pope from September 29, 855 to April 17, 858.Little is known of Benedict's life before his papacy. He was educated and lived in Rome and was cardinal priest of S.... , Eulogius Toletanus, Prudentius Trecensis, Angelomus Lexoviensis
116-118	Haymo Halberstatensis
119	Nicolaus I Pope Nicholas I Pope Nicholas I, , or Nicholas the Great, reigned from April 24, 858 until his death. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy and its position among the Christian nations of Western Europe, and is considered a saint.... , Florus Lugdunensis, Lupus Ferrariensis
120	Paschasius Radbertus Radbertus St. Paschasius Radbertus , was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, and Abbot of Corbie who wrote numerous treatises, expositions and biographies during the Frankish Carolingian era....
121	Ratramnus Corbeiensis Ratramnus Ratramnus was a Franks theological controversialist of the second half of the ninth century.He was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Corbie near Amiens; beyond this fact very little is known about him.... , Aeneas Parisiensis, Remigius Lugdunensis, Wandalbertus Prumiensis, Paulus Alvarus Cordubensis Álvaro of Córdoba ?lvaro of C?rdoba was a Mozarab Scriptural scholar, theologian, and poet of the 9th century. His friend and contemporary, Saint Eulogius of Cordoba, called him an "illustrious scholar and in our time a fluid and abundant fountain of knowledge."... , Gotteschalcus Orbacensis Gottschalk (theologian) Gottschalk , a theology, was born near Mainz, and was given to the monastic life from infancy by his parents. His father was a Saxon people, Count Bern....
122	Joannes Scotus Johannes Scotus Eriugena Johannes Scotus Eriugena , was an Ireland theologian, Neoplatonism philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius....
123	Ado Viennensis Ado (archbishop) Ado , archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia, belonged to a famous Franksish house, and spent much of his middle life in Italy. He held his archiepiscopal seat from 850 till his death on the December 16 874....
124	Usuardus Sangermanii, Carolus II Calvus Charles the Bald File:Charles le Chauve denier Bourges after 848.jpgCharles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith, daughter of Welf....
125-126	Hincmarus Rhemensis Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims Hincmar , archbishop of Reims, one of the most remarkable figures in the ecclesiastical history of the Carolingian period. He belonged to a noble family of the north or north-east of Gaul....
127-129	Anastasius bibliothecarius Anastasius Bibliothecarius Anastasius Bibliothecarius was a librarian and supposed antipope of the Roman Catholic Church....
130	Isidorus Mercator
131	Remigius Antissiodorensis Remigius of Auxerre Remigius of Auxerre was a Benedictine monk during the Carolingian period, a teacher of Latin grammar, and a prolific author of Commentary on classical Greek and Latin texts.... , Notkerus Balbulus Notker of St Gall Notker the Stammerer , also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall , was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland....
132	Regino Prumiensis Regino of Prüm Reginon or Regino of Pr?m was a Benedictine abbot and List of historians#Medieval historians/chroniclers.... , Hucbaldus S. Amandi Hucbald Hucbald was a music theory, composer, teacher, writer, hagiographer, and Benedictine monk. Deeply influenced by Boethius' De Institutione Musica, he wrote the first systematic work on western music theory, aiming at reconciling through many notated examples ancient Greek music theory and the contemporary practice of the more recent so-...
133	Odo Cluniacensis Odo of Cluny Saint Odo of Cluny , a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy....
134	Atto Vercellensis Atto of Vercelli Atto , was a Francemonk, learned theologian and canonist, made bishop of Vercelli, Italy before the year 945.He is sometimes known as Atto II, as an earlier homonymous bishop of Vercelli flourished about middle of eighth century....
135	Flodoardus Remensis Flodoard Flodoard was a France chronicler.He was born at ?pernay, and educated at Reims in the cathedral school which had been established by Archbishop Fulcon .... , Joannes XIII Pope John XIII John XIII of Crescenzi family served as Pope from October 1, 965 until his death.Born in Rome, he spent his career in the papal court. He was elected Pope John XIII five months after the death of Pope Leo VIII , as a compromise candidate, with the agreement of Emperor Otto I ....
136	Ratherius Veronensis Ratherius Ratherius was a teacher, writer, and bishop. His political work led to his becoming an exileand a wanderer. He is also known as Rathier or Rather of Verona.... , Liutprandus Cremonensis Liutprand of Cremona Liutprand was a Lombards historian and author, and Bishop of Cremona.He was born into a prominent family of Pavia towards the beginning of the 10th century....
137	Hrothsuita Gandersheimensis, Widukindus Corbeiensis, Dunstanus Cantuariensis Dunstan Dunstan was an abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a bishop of Worcester, a bishop of London, and an archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonization as a saint.... , Adso Dervensis, Joannes S. Arnulfi Metensis
138	Richerus S. Remigii Richerus Richer was a monk of St. Remi just outside Reims, and a chronicler of the 10th century.He was a son of Rodulf, a trusty councillor and captain of Louis IV of France....
139	Sylvester II (Gerbertus), Aimoinus Floriacensis Aimoin Aimoin , France chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.... , Abbo Floriacensis Abbo of Fleury Abbo of Fleury , also known as Abbon or Saint Abbo was a monk, and later abbot, of the Benedictine monastery of Fleury sur Loire near Orl?ans, France.... , Thietmarus Merseburgensis Thietmar of Merseburg Thietmar of Merseburg , was bishop of Merseburg and a Germany chronicler....
140	Burchardus Wormaciensis Burchard of Worms Burchard of Worms was the Roman Catholic bishop of Worms in the Holy Roman Empire, and author of a Canon law collection in twenty books, the "Collectarium canonum" or "Decretum".... , Henricus II imperator Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II , called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy Roman Empire of the Ottonian dynasty from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later.... , Adelboldus Trajectensis, Thangmarus Hildesheimensis
141	Fulbertus Carnotensis Fulbert of Chartres Fulbert of ChartresFulbert of Chartres was the bishop of the Cathedral of Chartres from 1006 till 1028. He was a teacher at the Cathedral school there, he was responsible for the advancement of the celebration of the Feast day of ?Nativity of the Virgin?, and he was responsible for one of the many reconstructions of the Cathedral.... , Guido Aretinus, Joannes XIX Pope John XIX John XIX , born Romanus, was Pope from 1024 to 1032.He succeeded his brother, Pope Benedict VIII , both being members of the powerful house of counts of Tusculum....
142	Bruno Herbipolensis, Odilo Cluniacensis, Berno Augiae Divitis Berno of Reichenau Berno was the Reichenau from his appointment by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1008. He reformed the Gregorian chant.Following the reforms initiated under Abbot Immo, who imposed the Benedictine rule, under Berno's enlightened guidance the abbey reached its peak as a centre of learning, with a productive scriptorium, as a centre of Bendi...
143	Hermannus Contractus, Humbertus Silvae Candidae Humbert of Mourmoutiers Humbert of Mourmoutiers was a French prelate, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Benedictine oblate , donated by his parents to the monastery of Moyenmoutier in Lorraine .... , Leo IX Pope Leo IX Pope Saint Leo IX , born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg , was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with the feast day of April 19....
144-145	Petrus Damianus Peter Damian Saint Peter Damian, Order of Saint Benedict was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Gregory VII and a Cardinal . In 1823, he was posthumously declared a Doctor of the Church....
146	Othlonus S. Emmerammi, Adamus Bremensis Adam of Bremen Adam of Bremen was one of the most important Germany medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum .... , Gundecharus Eichstetensis, Lambertus Hersfeldensis Lambert of Hersfeld Lambert of Hersfeld , was a medieval chronicler, probably a Thuringian by birth. His work represents a major source for the history of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in the eleventh century.... , Petrus Malleacensis Petrus Malleacensis Petrus Malleacensis was the author of a chronicle history in two volumes of Maillezais Abbey, which was located in present-day Charente, France....
147	Joannes Abrincensis, Bertholdus Constantiensis, Bruno Magdeburgensis, Marianus Scottus Marianus Scotus Marianus Scotus , was an Iro-Scottish monks and chronicler , was an Ireland by birth, and called M?el Brigte, or Devotee of Brigid.He was educated by a certain Tigernach, and having become a monk in 1052 he crossed over to the continent of Europe in 1056, and his subsequent life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and... , Landulfus Mediolanensis, Alphanus Salernitanus Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno Saint Alfano I was the Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writer, theologian, and medical doctor in the eleventh century....
148	Gregorius VII Pope Gregory VII Pope Saint Gregory VII , born Hildebrand of Soana , was papacy from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor affirming the primacy of the papal authority and the new canon law governing...
149	Victor III Pope Victor III Pope Victor III , born Daufer , Latinised Dauferius, was the Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.... , Anselmus Lucensis Anselm of Lucca Saint Anselm of Lucca the Younger was an Italian bishop, a prominent figure in the Investiture Controversy and in the fighting in Central Italy between the forces of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, the papal champion, and those of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.... , Willelmus Calculus
150	Lanfrancus Cantuariensis Lanfranc Lanfranc was Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Lombards by extraction.... , Herluinus Beccensis, Willelmus Beccensis Abbas, Boso Beccensis Abbas, Theobaldus Beccensis Abbas, Letardus Beccensis Abbas, Augustinus Cantuariensis Episcopus, Bonizio Sutrensis Placentinus Episcopus, Guillelmus Metensis Abbas, Wilhelmus Hirsaugensis Abbas, Herimannus Metensis Episcopus, Theodoricus S Audoeni Monachus, Guido Farfensis Abbas, Aribo Scholasticus, Henricus Pomposianus Clericus, Robertus De Tumbalena Abbas, Gerardus Cameracensis Episcopus II, Reynaldus Remensis Archiepiscopus I, Joannes Cotto, Fulco Corbeiensis Abbas, Gillebertus Elnonensis Monachus, Willelmus Clusiensis Monachus, Durandus Claromontanus Episcopus, Hemmingus Wigorniensis Monachus, Radbodus Tornacensis Episcopus, Agano Augustodunensis Episcopus, Oldaricus Praepositus, Bernardus Lutevensis Episcopus, Fulcoius Meldensis Subdiaconus, Constantinus Africanus Casinensis, Deusdedit Cardinalis, Willelmus Pictavensis Archidiaconus, Joannes De Garlandia, Rufinus Episcopus
151	Urbanus II Pope Urban II Pope Urban II , born Otho de Lagery , was Pope from March 12, 1088 until his death. He is most known for starting the First Crusade and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court, to help run the Church....
152-153	Bruno Carthusianorum Bruno of Cologne Saint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims, and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II....
154	Hugo Flaviniacensis Hugh of Flavigny Hugh of Flavigny, or Hugo of Flavigny, was a Benedictine monk and medieval historian.... , Ekkehardus Uraugiensis Ekkehard of Aura Ekkehard of Aura was the Abbot of Aura Abbey from 1108. A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made updates to the World Chronicle of Frutolf of Michelsberg adding important German history between 1098 and 1125 during the reign of Emperor Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, in which he sided strongly with the papacy in the Investiture Controve... , Wolphelmus Brunwillerensis
155	Godefridus Bullonius Godfrey of Bouillon Godfrey of Bouillon was a medieval knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087.... , Radulfus Ardens Radulfus Ardens Radulfus Ardens was a French theologian and early scholastic philosopher of the twelfth century. He was born in Beaulieu, Poitou.He is known for his Summa de vitiis et virtutibus or Speculum universale .... , Lupus Protospatarius Lupus Protospatharius Lupus Protospatharius Barensis was the reputed author of the Chronicon rerum in regno Neapolitano gestarum, a precise history of the Mezzogiorno from 805 to 1102....
156	Guibertus S. Mariae de Novigento Guibert of Nogent Guibert of Nogent was a Benedictine historian, theology and author of autobiography memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries....
157	Goffridus Vindocinensis Geoffrey of Vendôme Geoffrey of Vend?me was a French Benedictine monk, wrter and cardinal.At an early age he entered the Benedictine community of the Blessed Trinity at Vend?me in the diocese of Chartres; and in 1093, while still very young and only a deacon, was chosen abbot of the community.... , Thiofridus Efternacensis, Petrus Alphonsus Petrus Alphonsi Petrus Alphonsi was a Jewish Spain writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity. He was physician to King Alfonso VI of Castile....
158-159	Anselmus Cantuariensis Anselm of Canterbury Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theology, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109....
160	Sigebertus Gemblacensis Sigebert of Gembloux Sigebert of Gembloux , was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pope Pascal II....
161	Ivo Carnotensis Ivo of Chartres Saint 'Ivo of Chartres' was the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death and an important canon lawyer during the Investiture Crisis....
162	Ivo Carnotensis Ivo of Chartres Saint 'Ivo of Chartres' was the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death and an important canon lawyer during the Investiture Crisis.... , Petrus Chrysolanus Grossolano Grossolanus, Grossolano, or Grosolano, born Peter, was the Archbishop of Milan from 1102 to 1112. He succeeded Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan, who had made him vicar during his absence on the Crusade of 1101, and was succeeded by Jordan, Archbishop of Milan, who had been his subdeacon.... , Anselmus Laudunensis Anselm of Laon Anselm of Laon was a France theology.Remembered in the century after his death as "Anselmus" or "Anselm", his name was more properly "Ansellus" or, in Modern French, "Anseau."...
163	Paschalis II Pope Paschal II Paschal II, born Ranierius, was Pope from August 13, 1099, until his death. A monk of the Abbey of Cluny, he was created cardinal priest of the Titulus Basilica di San Clemente by Pope Gregory VII about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to Pope Urban II on August 19, 1099.... , Gelasius II Pope Gelasius II Gelasius II , born Giovanni Coniulo, was pope from January 24, 1118 to January 29, 1119.... , Calixtus II
164-165	Bruno Astensis
166	Baldricus Dolensis Baldric of Dol Baldric of Dol was abbot of Bourgueil from 1079 to 1106, then bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne from 1107 until his death.After a course of studies at the school of Angers, he entered the Abbey of Bourgueil in Anjou, where he became abbot in 1079.... , Honorius II Pope Honorius II Pope Honorius II , born Lamberto Scannabecchi , was pope from December 21, 1124, to February 13, 1130.Lamberto came from a simple rural background at Fiagnano Castle, near Imola in present day Italy.... , Cosmas Pragensis Cosmas of Prague Cosmas of Prague was a Bohemian priest, writer and historian born in a noble family in Bohemia. Between 1075 and 1081, he studied in Li?ge . After his return to Bohemia, he became a priest and married Bo?etecha, with whom he probably had a son....
167-170	Rupertus Tuitensis
171	Hildebertus Turonensis Hildebert Hildebert of Lavardin or Hildebert of Tours , was a France writer and ecclesiastic. His name is also spelled Hydalbert, Gildebert, or Aldebert.... , Marbodus Redonensis Marbodius of Rennes Marbodus , archdeacon and schoolmaster at Angers, France, then Bishop of Rennes in Brittany. He was a respected poet, hagiographer, and hymnologist....
172	Honorius Augustodunensis
173	Leo Marsicanus Leo of Ostia Leo Marsicanus or Ostiensis , also known as Leone dei Conti di Marsi , was a nobleman and monk of Monte Cassino around 1061 and Italian Cardinal from the twelfth century.... , Petrus diaconus, Rodulfus S. Trudonis
174	Godefridus Admontensis
175-177	Hugo de S. Victore Hugh of St Victor Hugh of Saint Victor was born in France, or probably in Saxony. His early life is rather obscure and not much is known for certain of his origins....
178	Petrus Abaelardus Peter Abelard Peter Abelard was a medieval France Scholasticism philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Heloise has become legendary....
179	Willelmus Malmesburiensis William of Malmesbury William of Malmesbury , English historians in the Middle Ages, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father was Normans and his mother English....
180	Eugenius III, Guillelmus S. Theodorici William of St-Thierry William of St-Thierry was a theologian and mystic, so called from the monastery of which he was abbot....
181	Herveus Burgidolensis Hervé de Bourg-Dieu Herv? de Bourg-Dieu was a French Benedictine exegete.He is known particularly for his Commentarii in Isaiam prophetam, on the Book of Isaiah....
182-185	Bernardus Claraevallensis Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercians was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order....
186	Sugerius S. Dionysii Abbot Suger Suger was one of the last France abbot-statesmen, a historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture.Suger was born into a poor family and in 1091 was brought to the nearby Saint Denis Basilica for education.... , Robertus Pullus Robert Pullus Robert Pullus was an English cardinal, philosopher and theologian, of the twelfth century.... , Zacharias Chrysopolitanus Zacharias Chrysopolitanus Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, also known as Zachary of Besan?on, was from Besan?on and died about 1155. He was a biblical scholar of the Premonstratensian Order....
187	Gratianus Gratian (jurist) Gratian, was a 12th century Canon law yer from Bologna. He is sometimes wrongly referred to as Franciscus Gratianus, or Johannes Gratianus, or Giovanni Graziano....
188	Ordericus Vitalis Orderic Vitalis Orderic Vitalis was an English historians in the Middle Ages who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and England.... , Anastasius IV Pope Anastasius IV Pope Anastasius IV , born Corrado di Suburra , was Pope from 1153 to 1154.... , Adrianus IV Pope Adrian IV Pope Adrian IV , born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.Adrian IV is the only England who has occupied the papal chair....
189	Petrus Venerabilis Peter the Venerable Peter the Venerable , also known as Peter of Montboissier, Abbot of Cluny of the Rule of Saint Benedict abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne , France....
190	Thomas Cantuariensis Thomas Becket Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to his death. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.... , Herbertus de Boseham, Gilbertus Foliot Gilbert Foliot Gilbert Foliot was a medieval English Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. A number of his relatives were ecclesiastics, and he became a monk at Cluny Abbey sometime around age 20....
191-192	Petrus Lombardus Peter Lombard Peter Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; was a scholasticism and bishop and author of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum....
193	Garnerius S. Victoris, Gerhohus Reicherspergensis
194	Gerhohus Reicherspergensis, Hugo Pictavinus, Isaac de Stella Isaac of Stella Isaac of Stella was a monk, theologian and philosopher. He joined the Order of Cistercians, during the reforms of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.... , Alcherus Claraevallensis
195	Aelredus Rievallensis Ailred of Rievaulx Ailred , Abbot of Rievaulx , was an England Christian saint and writer.... , Wolbero S. Pantaleonis, Elisabeth Schonaugiensis Elizabeth of Schönau Elizabeth of Sch?nau was a German Benedictine visionary. When her writings were published, the title of "Saint" was added to her name. She was never Canonization, but in 1584 her name was entered in the Roman Martyrology and has remained there....
196	Richardus S. Victoris
197	Hildegardis abbatissa Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German people abbess, author, counselor, Linguistics, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, visionary and composer....
198	Adamus Scotus Adam of Dryburgh Adam of Dryburgh was a late 12th and early 13th century England-Scotland theologian, writer and Premonstratensian and Carthusian monk. He entered Dryburgh Abbey as a young man, rising to become abbot , before converting to Carthusianism and moving to Witham Friary.... , Petrus Comestor Petrus Comestor Petrus Comestor was a France theological writer .... , Godefridus Viterbiensis Godfrey of Viterbo Godfrey of Viterbo , was a Roman Catholic chronicler, either Italy or Germany....
199	Joannes Saresberiensis John of Salisbury John of Salisbury , English author, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, was born at Salisbury, England.Beyond the fact that he was of Anglo-Saxons, not of Normans extraction, and applied to himself the cognomen of Parvus, "short," or "small," few details are known regarding his early life; but from his own statements it is gathered that he...
200	Alexander III Pope Alexander III Pope Alexander III , born Rolando of Siena, was Pope from 1159 to 1181....
201	Arnulfus Lexoviensis, Guillelmus Tyrensis William of Tyre William of Tyre was archbishop of Tyre and a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages....
202	Petrus Cellensis Peter Cellensis Pierre de Celle was a French Benedictine and bishop.... , Urbanus III Pope Urban III Pope Urban III , born Uberto Crivelli, was Pope from 1185 to 1187. He was made Catholic Cardinal and archbishop of Milan by Pope Lucius III, whom he succeeded on November 25, 1185.... , Gregorius VIII Pope Gregory VIII Pope Gregory VIII , born Alberto di Morra, was Pope from October 25, 1187 until his death.... , Hugo Eterianus Hugo Etherianis Hugh Etherianus , and his brother Leo Tuscus, were Tuscans by birth, employed at the court of Constantinople under the Emperor Manuel I Comnenus.... , Gilbertus Foliot Gilbert Foliot Gilbert Foliot was a medieval English Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. A number of his relatives were ecclesiastics, and he became a monk at Cluny Abbey sometime around age 20....
203	Philippus de Harveng
204	Reinerus S. Laurentii Leodiensis, Clemens III Pope Clement III Pope Clement III , born Paulino Scolari, was elected Pope on December 19, 1187 and reigned until his death.A Roman by birth, he was made by Pope Alexander III successively archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica , cardinal-deacon of Sergio e Bacco , and finally cardinal bishop of Palestrina in December 1180....
205	Petrus Cantor Peter Cantor Peter Cantor, or Peter the Chanter was a French Roman Catholic theologian. He commented on Old Testament and New Testament books. His work on the sacrament of penance is especially noteworthy....
206	Coelestinus III Pope Celestine III Pope Celestine III , born Giacinto Bobone, was elected Pope on March 30, 1191, and reigned until his death. He was born into the noble Orsini family, though he was only a deacon before becoming Pope.... , Thomas Cisterciensis, Joannes Algrinus
207	Petrus Blesensis Peter of Blois Peter of Blois or Petrus Blesensis was a France poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin. Peter studied law in Bologna and theology in Paris....
208	Martinus Legionensis
209	Martinus Legionensis, Wilhelmus Daniae, Gualterus de Castellione Walter of Chatillon Walter of Ch?tillon was a 12th-century France writer and theology who wrote in the Latin. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris....
210	Alanus de Insulis Alain de Lille Alain de Lille , France theology and poet, was born, probably in Lille, some years before 1128....
211	Stephanus Tornacensis Stephen of Tournai Stephen of Tournai was a Roman Catholic canonist.... , Petrus Pictaviensis Peter of Poitiers Peter of Poitiers was a French Scholasticism theologian.... , Adamus Perseniae Adam of Perseigne Adam of Perseigne was a France Cistercian Order, Abbot of the monastery of Perseigne in the Diocese of Mans.Adam was born around 1145 into a serf, or peasant, family....
212	Helinandus Frigidi Montis Helinand of Froidmont Helinand of Froidmont was a The Middle Ages poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer.... , Guntherus Cisterciensis, Odo de Soliaco
213	Sicardus Cremonensis, Petrus Sarnensis
214-217	Innocentius III Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III was born in either 1160 or 1161, and died on July 16, 1216 at Perugia. He was born with the name Lotario de Conti, and he was pope from January 8, 1198 until his death....
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