- Gerard la Pucelle
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name =Gerard la Pucelle
religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Coventry
Title =Bishop of Coventry
Period = 1183–1184
Predecessor =Richard Peche
Successor =Hugh Nonant
ordination =
bishops =
post =
date of birth = c 1117
place of birth =
date of death =13 January 1184
place of death =Coventry Gerard la Pucelle was an
Anglo-French scholar ofcanon law , clerk, andBishop of Coventry .Life
Gerard (Girard) La Pucelle (c. 1115/1120 – 1184) was an
Anglo-French scholar, possibly born in England, who taughtcanon law ["leges et decreta" according toJohn of Salisbury .] at theUniversity of Paris in the 1150s, when the study of the discipline of the Church was first differentiated fromtheology , spurred by the collections of churchdecretal s that began with the "Decretum Gratiani " assembled by a monk at theUniversity of Bologna . Among his surviving texts aregloss es on the Decretum Manuscripts, among the manuscripts ofDurham Cathedral [MS C.III.1 marked with the siglum 'Ger.' (Pennington)] and, in the "Summa Lipsiensis" [The collection of decretals with commentary, as used inLeipzig ] marked with the siglum 'Magister G. Coventris Episcopus' ("Doctor G. Bishop of Coventry"), and occasionally in the "Summa Parisiensis", [The decretals and commentaries collected at the University of Paris.] and elsewhere (See Pennington). Gerard added to the standard collection from which he taught. Among his pupils wereLucas of Hungary ,Ralph Niger , master Richard, a certain Gervase who retired to Durham, and the English scholarWalter Map (Pennington).Knowles "The Monastic Order in England" p. 674 footnote 3]Gerard was a member of
Thomas Becket 's entourage, his extended "familia ",Barlow "Thomas Becket" p. 78] and a close friend ofJohn of Salisbury .Barlow "Thomas Becket" p. 135] After Becket went into exile, Gerard taught for a while in Paris before he undertook a mission to the EmpireBarlow "Thomas Becket" p. 127] in 1165/66 even thoughFrederick Barbarossa was under a ban ofexcommunication .Donahue "Pucelle, Gerard (d. 1184)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"] In 1168 Gerard returned to England and took the oath of fealty to Henry II which Becket had rejected.Barlow "Thomas Becket" p. 176] With papal permission and that ofLouis VII of France he was permitted to reside—and doubtless teach— inCologne , which was one of the most important centers of canon law scholarship in the 1160s and 1170s.From about 1174 he was once again in England, serving as a principal clerk to Becket's successor as
Archbishop of Canterbury , ArchbishopRichard of Dover . He was also withPeter of Blois for a time in Rome, where he represented Richard of Dover at the curia. In 1179, Gerard attended theThird Lateran Council as the archbishop's representative. From there, he may have returned to Colonge to teach for a bit, but by 1181 Gerard had returned to England.Perhaps already a canon,Fact|date=February 2008 in January 1183, he was appointed Bishop of Coventry (later known as Coventry and Lichfield),Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 253] [The two dioceses were combined, 1121–1188.] which made him the
vassal ofHenry II of England , [Throughout the latter part of the twelfth and early part of the thirteenth century, the bishop owed the service of fifteen knights, according to "Victoria County History : Warwick," vol 2 (1908) {http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36487 (on-line] )] but he died the following year on 13 January 1184 atCoventry . Some suspected that Gerard was poisoned. He was buried inCoventry Cathedral .ee also
*
Mathieu d'Angers
*Anselm of Paris Notes
References
*Barlow, Frank "Thomas Becket" Berkeley, CA:University of California Press 1986 ISBN 0-520-07175-1
*"Catholic Encyclopedia " "Paris, University of"
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34284 'Dignitaries & canons whose prebends are unidentified: Canons for whom no prebend assigned', "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300": volume 4: Salisbury (1991)] , pp. 118-38. Date accessed: 13 May 2006. Apparently already a canon, though his prebendary, whether of Canterbury or Coventry, is unidentified.
*Donahue Charles jun., "Pucelle, Gerard (d. 1184)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49666 Online Edition] accessed 14 January 2008
*cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |coauthors=Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third Edition, revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36487 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Coventry', "A History of the County of Warwick": Volume 2 (1908), pp. 52-9] Date accessed: 13 May 2006.
*Knowles, Dom David "The Monastic Order in England: From the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council" Second Edition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976 reprint ISBN 0-521-05479-6
* [http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/1140d-h.htm Pennington, Dr. Ken "d.-glosses, appear in a strata of Bolognese glosses composed during the 1180s"] Bibliography.
*Weiler, Dr. Bjorn review of Joseph P. Huffman, "Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Immigrants, c.1000-c.1300" (Cambridge University Press, 1998) ( [http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/weiler.html on-line] )Further reading
*S. Kuttner and E. Rathbone, "Anglo-Norman canonists of the twelfth century" "Traditio" 7 1949–51 p. 279–358
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NAME= La Pucelle, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Gerard Pucelle; Girard la Pucelle
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of Coventry
DATE OF BIRTH=c. 1117
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH=13 January 1184
PLACE OF DEATH=
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