Eustorgue de Montaigu

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Eustorgue de Montaigu († June 5 or 6, 1249 before Damiette ) was an archbishop of the Latin Church of Nicosia in Cyprus . He came from the Auvergne nobility and was a brother of the Templar and Hospitaller Grand Masters , Pierre de Montaigu and Garin de Montaigu .

Life

Eustorgue served as Latin Archbishop in the Crusader Kingdom of Cyprus since 1217 . He was instrumental in driving the construction of St. Sophia Cathedral (today's Selimiye Mosque ), the foundation stone of which was laid in 1209 and which was finally completed in 1228. In 1218 he took in the wake of John of Brienne , king of Jerusalem , the Fifth Crusade in part, after King Hugo I of Cyprus surprising in Tripoli had died.

The relationship between the still young but politically predominant Latin-Roman Church versus the local Greek-Orthodox Church in Cyprus turned out to be difficult during his tenure. Apparently Eustorgue had thirteen Greek monks from the monastery of Our Lady of Kantara (Kantariotissa) burned as heretics in Nicosia in 1231 , because they had refused to celebrate the Eucharist with Azyma . The Greek Archbishop Neophytos had it in a letter to Emperor John III. reported. On the Latin side there is a letter from Pope Gregory IX. of March 5, 1231 to the Archdiocese of Nicosia, in which Eustorgue is urged to deal with the thirteen monks he has imprisoned as if they were heretics. The martyrdom of the thirteen monks entered Greek hagiography through later reproductions of this event, especially by the Orthodox Patriarch Germanos II . An anonymous Dominican, on the other hand, declared them to be "martyrs of the devil" in his treatise Contra errores Graecorum .

In September 1248, at the instigation of the papal crusade legate Odo von Châteauroux , Eustorgue founded a school for grammar and higher theology in Nicosia. Then he took as well as King Henry I and the Cypriot knighthood at the crusade of King Louis IX. (Saint Louis) of France against Egypt ( Sixth Crusade ). He was killed in the fighting for the capture of Damiette on June 5 or 6, 1249.

literature

  • Georgij Awakumov: The emergence of the idea of ​​union: the Latin theology of the high Middle Ages in dealing with the rite of the Eastern Church (Akademie Verlag, 2002)
  • Kenneth M. Setton, Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard: A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311 (2006)
predecessor Office successor
? Archbishop of Nicosia
1217–1249
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