Garnier de Traînel

Garnier de Traînel († April 14, 1205 in Constantinople ) was Bishop of Troyes in the 13th century. He came from the lords of the Traînel family from Champagne .

Garnier took part in the fourth crusade . According to a letter from the Count of St. Pol, after the siege of Zara (1202) he was one of those who had spoken out in favor of a diversion of the crusade to Constantinople . After the city was conquered in 1204, he was appointed procurator sanctorum reliquarum in the Bukoleon Palace and entrusted with the distribution of the captured relics . Among other things, he had parts of the true cross , the head of St. Philip , an arm of St. James and a cup used at the Last Supper , which according to legend was said to have been the Holy Grail , transferred to Troyes. After his death in 1205 this office was taken over by Bishop Nivelon of Soissons .

literature

• Patrick J. Geary: Living with the dead in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 1994)
• Michael Angold: The fourth crusade: event and context (Pearson Education, 2003)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium (GeH) he is wrongly called Bishop "Heinrich von Troyes". Edited by Ludwig Weiland in MGH SS 23, pp. 73–123
2. ↑ Annales Colonienses maximi , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 17 (1861), p. 812
3. ^ Ricardus de Gerboredo, Adventus faciei S. Johannis Bapt. , AASS, June 5, 640; ed. by Paul Riant , Dépouilles religieuses à Constantinople , 32
4. ↑ Paul Riant, Exuviae sacrae Constantinopolitanae 2: 178

Web link

• Seigneurs de Traînel at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Barthélémy	Bishop of Troyes 1193–1205	Hervée