Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims

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Henry from a 14th-century miniature

Henry of France (circa 1121 – 13 November 1175),

archbishop of Reims (1161–1175),[1] was the third son of King Louis VI of France[1] and Adelaide of Maurienne
.

As the third son of the king (and, on his mother's side, the great-nephew of

Cistercian monk, speaks of Henry in 1147 as humbly washing dishes at Clairvaux.[2] His position as abbot of the collegiate churches was bestowed upon his younger brother Philip.[3]

In 1149, on the death of Bishop

Pope Eugenius III
in 1151.

In 1161 Henry became Archbishop of Reims,[1] succeeded at Beauvais by Bartholomew of Montcornet. Henry organised an important church council at Reims in 1164. He again found himself in conflict with the populace of his city, but was supported by his brother Louis. The revolt was suppressed and Archbishop Henry devoted himself to beautifying and fortifying Reims, which included building the castles of Septsaulx and Cormicy.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Gislebertus of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, transl. Laura Napran, (The Boydell Press, 2005), 68 n288.
  2. ^ Horace K.Mann, The Lives of the Popes in the Middle Ages, IX. London, 1914. p. 185-6. [1]
  3. ^ The Career of Philip the Cleric, younger Brother of Louis VII: Apropos of an Unpublished Charter, Andrew W. Lewis, "Traditio", Vol. 50, (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 114.

References

Demouy, Patrick. “Henri de France,” in Alfred Baudrillart, et al., eds., Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, XXIII (1990), cols. 1129-1132.

____. Henri de France, archevêque de Reims (1162-75). Biographie et recueil des actes. (Mémoire de maîtrise de l’Université de Reims, 1972.)

____. “Henri de France et Louis VII. L’Évêque cistercien et son frère le roi,” [in Les Serviteurs de l’État au Moyen Âge. Actes du XXIXe Congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l’enseignement supérieur public (Publications de la Sorbonne. Histoire ancienne et médiévale). Paris, 1999, pp. 47–61.

Ludwig Falkenstein, “Alexandre III et Henri de France: Conformités et conflits,” in: Rolf Grosse, ed., L’Eglise de France et la papauté (Xème-XIIIème siècle). (Studien und Dokumente zur Gallia pontificia/Etudes et documents pour servir à une Gallia pontificia, I). Bonn, 1993, pp. 103–176.

Dietrich Lohrmann, “Autour d’un acte d’Henri, évêque de Beauvais, concernant trois granges de Froidmont (1159),” in Michel Parisse, ed. A Propos des actes d’évêques: Hommage à Lucie Fossier. (Collection: Actes des Evêques de France). Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991, pp. 161–167.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Samson de Mauvoisin
Archbishop of Reims

1162–1175 		Succeeded by
William White Hands
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