Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240-1254)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Names/Translations
Introduction
	Medieval sources
	Modern sources
	Chapter summaries
	Notes
Chapter 1: Origins
	Introduction
	Saintonge
	Castellanies and vicaria
	Diocese of Saintes
	Aquitaine and the crusades
	Plantagenets and Capetians
	Saintonge War
	Robert\'s “nepotes”
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: “A bishop in Apulia”
	Introduction
	Background
	The Normans
	Lombardy
	Frederick II
	Robert’s education
	“A bishop in Apulia”
	The “War of the Keys”
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Bishop of Nantes
	Introduction
	Background in Brittany
	Plantagenets and Capetians
	Diocese of Nantes
	Peter of Dreux
	Peter and the Breton Church
	Episcopal election in Nantes in 1235
	Robert, bishop of Nantes
	Baron’s Crusade
	Expulsion of the Jews from Brittany
	Robert’s return to Rome
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: The patriarchal election in 1239/1240
	Introduction
	Fifth Crusade
	Frederick’s crusade
	Gerold’s death
	Robert in Rome
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: Patriarch and papal legate in the east
	Introduction
	Genoa
	1242 coup in Acre
	Robert’s arrival
	Sack of Jerusalem
	Battle of Forbie
	Help from the west
	Council of Lyon
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: The crusade of Louis IX
	Introduction
	The Holy Blood
	The Seventh Crusade
	Louis’ defeat and imprisonment
	Recruitment of Henry III
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 7: Seignor temporel and seignor espirituel
	Introduction
	Anti-imperial policy in Jerusalem
	The Mongols
	Assigning benefices
	Relations with eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews
	Relations with other Latins
	Robert and the legal tradition in Acre
	Two seignors espirituels
	Ecclesiastical statutes: Nazareth, Jaffa, Acre
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 8: Epilogue
	Introduction
	Robert’s legacy
	The Girdle of the Virgin Mary
	The Salle des croisades
	Robert in history and fiction
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Saintonge
	1a. Bourel de la Roncière, vol. 1, no. 799, pp. 242–43
		Notes
	1b. CSB, vol. 5, no. L (1353), p. 26
		Notes
Appendix 2: Italy
	Auvray, vol 1, no. 2032–2033, col. 1098–1100
		Notes
Appendix 3: Nantes
	3a. Auvray, vol. 2, no. 2647, col. 90–92
		Notes
	3b. Cartulaire de l\'église de Quimper, ed. Paul Peyron, (Quimper, 1909), no. 49, pp. 88–91
		Notes
	3c. Auvray, vol. 2, no. 3392, col. 510 (Gallia Christiana vol. XIV, Ecclesia Nannetensis Instrumenta no. X-XIII, col 179–182)
		Notes
	3d. Auvray, vol. 2, no. 3387, col 508–509
		Notes
	3e. Auvray, vol. 2, no. 3988, col. 832–833
		Notes
	3f. Auvray, vol. 3, no. 5172, col. 241–242
		Notes
	3g. Auvray, vol. 3., no. 5179, col. 244–245
		Notes
	3h. Morice, col. 935–939
		Notes
Appendix 4: Jerusalem
	4a. Cristina Carbonetti Vendittelli, ed., Il registro della cancelleria di Federico II del 1239–1240, vol. 1 (Rome, 2002), no. 201, p. 191
		Notes
	4b. Huillard-Bréholles, vol. 6, p. 236–240
		Notes
	4c. Vincent, The Holy Blood, appendix 1, pp. 202–204
		Notes
	4d. Berger, vol. 2, no. 4662, p. 108
		Notes
	4e. Cartulary of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom of Nicosia, ed. Coureas and Schabel, no. 38, pp. 128–130
		Notes
	4f. Analecta novissima spicilegii Solesmensis: altera continuatio, ed. Jean-Baptiste Pitra (1888), vol. 2, p. 294
		Notes
Bibliography
	Primary sources
	Secondary sources
Index