Jacques de Vitry

Jacques de Vitry (Latin Iacobus Vitriacensis, Jacques de Vitry French, * in 1160 /70, Reims, † May 1, 1240 in Rome) was a medieval cardinal.

Life

Jacob was first counselor in Brabant and managed here as an Augustinian Canons the women around Mary of Oignies. 1213 he was appointed Pope Innocent III. as a crusade preacher against the Albigensians. Because of his success, he was elected bishop of Acre. On the way to the Holy Land in 1216, he caused that the Beguines were recognized by the pope. Then he drew a crusader in the Fifth Crusade to Palestine, where he spent several years. In his letters from this period, he criticized his fellow Christians sharp, the child their real mission their personal interests and disputes. 1229 James was appointed cardinal bishop of Tusculum and elected Patriarch of Jerusalem eleven years later. Pope Gregory IX. however, did not confirm this choice. The reasons for this are unclear. Jacques de Vitry spent the rest of his life in Rome. He died as Cardinal Dean on May 1, 1240.

Jacob's historical essays are one of the main sources for the history of the Holy Land and for the Fifth Crusade. His influential hagiographic report, De Vita Mariae beatae Oigniacensis about the Beguine Mary of Oignies remained an imitation model in female hagiography of the late Middle Ages for a long time.

Works

  • Sermones de Tempore, Antwerp 1575th
  • Orientalis et Historia occidentalis, Douai 1597th
  • Historia Hierosolimitana, Edit. v. Jacques Bongars, in: Gesta Dei per Francos I, Hanau 1611.
  • History of Jerusalem, ed Andrew Stewart, London 1895/96 ( Palestine Pilgrim's Text Society Library, 11 ). [eng. Übers ]
  • Vita b. Mary Oignies, AASS Iun IV, 1707, 636-666.
  • The Historia Occidentalis of Jacques de Vitry. A Critical Edition ", ed JF Hinnebusch, Fribourg CH - 1972 ( Spicilegium Friburgense, 17).
  • Sermons vulgares, Edit. Pitra v. IB, in: Annovissima Spicilegii Solesmensis, 1888 ( excerpts only ).
  • Letters ( incomplete), ed. v. Reinhold reeds, in: CCT 14, 1894, 97-118; CCT 15, 1895, 568-587; CCT 16, 1896, 72-114.
  • Goswin Frenken: The Exempla of Jacob de Vitry. A contribution to the history of the narrative literature of the Middle Ages (Sources and Studies on Latin Philology of the Middle Ages 5.1 ), Munich 1914.
  • Joseph Greven: The Exempla from the Sermones Feriales et communes of Jacques de Vitry, in: collections of medieval texts 9, 1914.
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