Eustorge de Scorailles
Eustorge de Scorailles (
cathedral chapter in an election free of outside interference.[1]
Eustorge commissioned the poet Gregory Bechada to write the Canso d'Antioca, a lengthy Occitan poem recounting the First Crusade. This work, relying in part on eyewitness testimony, took twelve years to complete.[2]
Following the disputed
Anacletus II. By 1135, Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux had successfully convinced Duke William of Innocent's legitimacy and Eustorge was able to resume his episcopate unimpeded.[3]
Eustorge was succeeded by his nephew, Gérard du Cher (died 1177).[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Becquet 1996, p. 29.
- ^ Sweetenham & Edgington 2011, p. 12.
- ^ Walker 1982–83, p. 225.
Sources
- Becquet, Jean (1980). "Les évêques de Limoges aux Xe, XIe et XIIe siècles". Bulletin de la Société Archéologique et Historique du Limousin. 107: 109–41.
- Becquet, Jean (1996). "Religious Life in the Limousin in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries". In Teresa Egan (ed.). Enamels of Limoges, 1100–1350. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 29–32.
- Becquet, Jean (1997). "Actes du vicomte Adémar et de l'évêque Eustorge de Limoges (1107) en faveur de Cublac (Corrèze)". Lemouzi. 141: 95–98.
- Sweetenham, Carol; Edgington, Susan B., eds. (2011). The Chanson d'Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Ashgate.
- Walker, David (1982–83). "Crown and Episcopacy under the Normans and Angevins". Anglo-Norman Studies. 5: 220–33.
