Guerricus of Petra

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Guerricus of Petra (also Guerricus of Kerak or Guerricus of Montreal ; † 1190 before Acre ) was from 1167 the only Archbishop of Petra .

He was a regular canon in the Templum Domini in Jerusalem before he was appointed first Archbishop of Petra in 1167 .

In 1167, the crusaders had consolidated their rule over Oultrejordain to such an extent that they also opened up the region for church purposes. They established the Archdiocese of Petra. The eponymous rock city of Petra (also Petra Arabia or Petra in Palestine ) had been the seat of the bishopric in late antiquity, but had been destroyed and depopulated and still uninhabited since the Arab conquest in the 7th century. That is why Guerricus established his residence in Kerak , which was also the secular center of Oultrejordain.

The jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Petra extended as the " Metropolitan of Arabia" roughly to the area of ​​the former Roman province of Arabia Petraea . The Orthodox abbot of the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai , who was also Bishop of Pharan, was traditionally subordinate to him , even if the Crusaders only controlled the Sinai region sporadically.

After the devastating defeat of the Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin in 1187, all of Oultrejordain was conquered by Saladin until 1189 and was finally lost to the Crusaders. Since then, the Archdiocese of Petra has only been a titular archbishopric , but it still exists as such today.

Guerricus escaped from Oultrejordain, possibly for a ransom; in any case, he is named as one of those present in the besiegers' encampment during the siege of Acre in the autumn of 1190. He died during the siege.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Milwright: The fortress of the raven. Karak in the Middle Islamic period (1100-1650). Brill, Leiden 2008, ISBN 9004165193 , p. 30.
  2. ^ Hans Eberhard Mayer : The crusader rule of Montréal (Šōbak). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3447029889 , p. 222
  3. ↑ See Klaus-Peter Kirstein: The Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem. From the conquest of the Holy City by the Crusaders in 1099 to the end of the Crusader States in 1291. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3428099648 , p. 305
  4. ^ Hans Eberhard Mayer: The crusader rule of Montréal (Šōbak). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3447029889 , p. 223
personal data
SURNAME Guerricus of Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerricus from Kerak; Guerricus of Montreal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Petra
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 1190
Place of death Acre