Bérengar de Landore

Bérengar de Landore [Berengar of Landorra, of Landorre, Berenguel de Landoria or de Landoira.] (1262-1330) was a French Dominican, who became Master of the Order of Preachers, and then Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela. He was from a noble family of southern France. [ [http://204.11.236.37/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1868&view=previous] , Spanish.]

As Master General

As Master General, he set up the Friars Pilgrim missionaries. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12354c.htm] : "In 1312 the master general, Béranger de Landore, organized the missions of Asia into a special congregation of "Friars Pilgrims", with Franco of Perugia as vicar general. As a base of evangelization they had the convent of Pera (Constantinople), Capha, Trebizond, and Negropont. Thence they branched out into Armenia and Persia". Also [http://www.domcentral.org/trad/domwork/domwork13.htm] , [http://www.domcentral.org/trad/shorthistory/short03.htm] .] He set the trend towards Thomism as central to Dominican theology [ [http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom03.htm Ashley/Dominicans: 3 Mystics 1300s ] ] ; and campaigned against that of Durandus of Saint-Pourçain [ [http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-928231-5.pdf PDF] , p.5, [http://www.bookrags.com/research/durandus-of-saint-pourain-c-1275133-eoph/] .] . He asked Bernard Gui to compose a replacement for the "Golden Legend" of Jacob de Voragine. [ [http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1240&context=cmrs/comitatus PDF] , note p.146.]

As Archbishop

He took until 1322 to take possession as Archbishop, there being a Galician rival. [ [http://www.saint-jacques.info/2004.htm?PHPSESSID=3ef53756e6d98f2a642f334dd9942ab7] , [http://www.saint-jacques.info/anneesaintes.html] , both in French.] He had to reside at some time at Noia, [ [http://www.hortensio.com/gallega/noia.htm] (Spanish language).] , where he held a synod. [http://canalnoia.lamalice.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=35&limit=1&limitstart=5] His takeover was a violent affair. [It is claimed that Bérengar ordered the assassination in 1320 of Alonso Suárez de Deza [http://www.telefonica.net/web2/rinconesdesantiago/Paginas/balconada.htm] , the local mayor, and other counsellors; after Alonso's death serious fighting broke out.] He is remembered also for the building work he initiated on the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and relics. [ [http://www.camminosantiago.it/pdf/Importazione%20di%20reliquie%20e%20opere.pdf PDF (Italian)] , p.3.] One of the cathedral towers bears his name.

Works

His "Lumen animæ, seu liber moralitatum Magnarum rerum naturalium" was printed in 1482 by Matthias Farinator.

References

*"Hechos de Don Berenguel de Landoria, Arzobispo de Santiago: Introduccion, Edicion Critica y Traduccion" (1983) Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, translation of the chronicle "Gesta Berengarii de Landoria archiepiscopi Compostellani"