Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay

Peter von Vaux-de-Cernay (French: Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay , * around 1182 , † after 1218 ) was a Cistercian monk from the Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey and a chronicler of the crusade against the Albigensians .

In his Historia Albigensis , Peter describes the Albigensian Crusade in a very partisan way, interpreting it as a struggle between good and evil. Simon IV. De Montfort is celebrated as a hero and exemplary crusader. However, he also described in detail the appearance of the Cathars in Languedoc , their ecclesiastical hierarchy and rites, making his report one of the most important sources on this topic.

Peter's uncle, Guido, was the abbot of the Vaux-de-Cernay monastery. This rose as a result of the Albigensian crusade to the position of Bishop of Carcassonne .

Fonts

• Crusade against the Albigensians. The "Historia Albigensis" (1212–1218). For the first time translated from Latin into German, edited and provided with an afterword by Gerhard E. Sollbach. Manesse-Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7175-8228-3 ( Manesse Library of World History ).

literature

• Laurence W. Marvin: The Occitan Was. A military and political history of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-87240-9 .
• Jörg Oberste : The "crusade" against the Albigensians. Heresy and Power Politics in the Middle Ages. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-16265-X .
• Mark Gregory Pegg: A most holy was. The Albigensian crusade and the battle for Christendom. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-517131-0 .