Marguerita d'Oingt

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Marguerita d'Oingt († February 11, 1310 ) was a French religious , mystic and writer in Latin and Franco-Provençal .

life and work

Marguerita d'Oingt came from the family of the lords of Oingt , mentioned since the 11th century , a village in what is now the municipality of Val d'Oingt in Beaujolais , about twenty kilometers north-west of Lyon . Her father was Guichard d'Oingt, as can be seen from his will from 1297, which includes a donation to his daughter, and her mother was also called Marguerita. Her five siblings were Guichard, Louis, Catherine, Agnes and Isabelle. On the inner walls of the former castle chapel of Oingt, today's parish church of the village, there are portrait sculptures from the 13th century that are ascribed to these people; thus one of the rare portraits is likely to depict the nun and author Marguerita d'Oingt.

Marguerita's date of birth is unknown. She joined the Carthusian Order and was installed in 1288 as the fourth prioress of the Poletein Charterhouse, founded in 1238 , which existed in the area of ​​the municipality of Mionnay ( Ain department , northeast of Lyon) until the 17th century. After her death on February 11, 1310, Marguerita d'Oingt enjoyed great veneration in the Beaujolais region until the end of the Ancien Règime.

Marguerita d'Oingt's first writings were written in the 1280s. Together with Marie de France (1160–1210) and Christine de Pisan (1364–1430), she is one of the earliest known writers in France today. As an educated religious, she wrote a Latin devotional pamphlet in 1286 with the heading Pagina meditationum .

Her two extensive works Li Via seiti Biatrix, virgina de Ornaciu and Speculum are of great importance in literary and linguistic history, as they are the oldest known texts in Franco-Provencal literature. The former is a hagiographical biography of the Carthusian Béatrice d'Ornacieux and the Speculum , in English "mirror", belongs to the literary text genre of didactic poetry that was widespread in the Middle Ages . The General Chapter of the Carthusian Order approved the mystical texts of the Prioress of Poleteins as writings in accordance with the principles of the order.

literature

  • Marguerite d'Oingt. Experiences mystiques et récits édifiants Textes rédigés en francoprovençal et en latin par une moniale du XIIIe siècle. Trilingual edition, Franco Provençal and Latin with French translation. Lyon 2012.
  • Édouard Philipon (Ed.): Œuvres de Marguerite d'Oyngt, prieure de Poleteins, publiées d'après le manuscrit unique de la Bibliothèque municipale de Grenoble . Lyon 1877.
  • Antonin Duraffour , Pierre Gardette , Paulette Durdilly (eds.): Les Œuvres de Marguerite d'Oingt. Paris 1965.
  • Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski: The writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic. Rochester NY 1990.
  • Bruno Galland: La seigneurie d'Oingt au Moyen Age. In: Chroniques du pays beaujolais. Bulletin de l'Académie de Villefranche-sur-Saône 1989-1990 , 1991, pp. 57-72.
  • Sergi Sancho Fibla: Escribir y meditar. Las obras de Marguerite d'Oingt, cartuja del siglo XIII. Madrid 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives nationales , Paris, P 1360, No. 888.
personal data
SURNAME Marguerita d'Oingt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French religious, mystic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1310