Roger de Wavrin

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Roger de Wavrin († 1191 before Acre ) was a bishop of Cambrai . He came from the Flemish noble family of Wavrin .

Roger served as Archdeacon in Cambrai until he was elected Bishop of Cambrai in 1177 as a candidate for Count Baldwin V of Hainaut . He took part in the third crusade and died in 1191 at the siege of Acre , as did his brother, the Seneschal Hellin de Wavrin .

Roger de Wavrin had written a set of rules for the settlement of theological disputes at church meetings.

literature

  • Joseph Avril: Les "Precepta synodalia" de Roger de Cambrai , in: Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law (BMCL) 2 (1972), pp. 7-15

Individual evidence

  1. Gislebert von Mons , Chronicon Hanoniense , ed. by Wilhelm Arndt in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 21 (1869), p. 526
  2. Giselbert von Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense , ed. by Wilhelm Arndt in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 21 (1869), p. 579. Bishop Roger and Seneschal Hellin are named here as brothers ( fratres ).
predecessor Office successor
Alhard Bishop of Cambrai
1177–1191
Jean d'Antoing