Robert de Clari

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Robert de Clari (also Robert de Cléry; * around 1170 , † after 1216 ) was a knight from Picardy . In the wake of his lords, the Castellan Peter of Amiens , he took along with his brother, the monk Alleaume de Clari, the Fourth Crusade in part, of the 1204 with the conquest of Constantinople ended. Robert de Clari wrote a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade. De Clari appears to have returned to France in 1205. Although his chronicle contains events up to the year 1216, the period from 1205 to 1216 was summarized by him very briefly, almost as a final word to his story. Robert de Clari's chronicle is one of the few reports from contemporary witnesses that has survived to this day, in which the military events during the conquest of Constantinople are described from the perspective of a common soldier.

The shroud of Jesus Christ

De Clari mentions in his chronicle a shroud with the imprint of the face and body of Jesus Christ that he saw in the Blachernen Church in Constantinople in 1203 :

“There was a church there where the cloth was kept. Every Friday it was unfolded in its entire length and displayed so that one could clearly see the imprint of the figure of the body of Christ from the front and back as if he were standing upright in front of you. But nobody, neither Greek nor French, knew what had happened to the cloth when the city was taken. "

The English author Ian Wilson has been advocating the thesis that this cloth is identical to the Turin Shroud since 1978 . According to Wilson, there is a reference to the whereabouts of the cloth that Robert de Clari saw in Constantinople in the following document - only available in copy.

“In 1205, after the Fourth Crusade, Theodoros Angelos, a nephew of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II. Angelos sent a letter dated August 1, 1205, to Pope Innocent III. to protest against the attack on the capital of the Byzantine Empire:
'When dividing up the booty, the Venetians received the gold, silver and ivory treasures, the Gauls the holy relics, the most holy of which is the cloth in which our Lord Jesus Christ after his death and was wrapped before his resurrection ... We know that these sacred objects are kept in Venice, in Gaul and in other places of the looters, but the holy cloth is kept in Athens. '"

A number of Byzantinists , including Averil Cameron, reject Wilson's thesis that the shroud that Robert de Clari saw in Constantinople in 1203 was identical to the Turin shroud or the Abgar image .

See also

History of the Shroud

Works

  • Philippe Lauer (ed.), Robert de Clari: La Conquête de Constantinople. 1924.

literature

  • Edgar Holmes McNeal (Ed.): The Conquest of Constantinople. Reprint 1996.
  • Edward N. Stone (Ed.): Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades. Seattle 1939.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert of Clari's account of the Fourth Crusade, De Re Militari Homepage
  2. ↑ Codex Chartularium Culisanense , fol. CXXVI (copy), National Library Palermo ( Memento of February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Dan Scavone: Epiros in 1205 ( Memento from October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1997
personal data
SURNAME Robert de Clari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French knight (Picardy), chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1170
DATE OF DEATH after 1216