His appearance at a council at Etampes drew him into a conflict he would resolve by winning the allegiance of Victor IV to end the succession crisis that came with Honorius II's death and Anacletus II's becoming an antipope to Innocent II.
His appearance at a council at Etampes drew him into a conflict he would resolve by winning the allegiance of Victor IV to end the succession crisis that came with Honorius II's death and Anacletus II's becoming an antipope to Innocent II. He also put down a church dispute with William X of Aquitaine and defended the legitimacy of Lothair II before beginning his series of sermons on the Canticle of Canticles. He also wrote On the Love of God and the Book of Considerations, the latter of which was addressed to his student, Pope Eugenius III. During the Council of Troyes, he set forth the rules for the Knights Templar, but made his most memorable statement in a sermon at Vezelay that inspired King Louis VII to begin a campaign to Damascus. FTP, identify this French monk who preached the Second Crusade and brought the Cistercian order to prominence.
His appearance at a council at Etampes drew him into a conflict he would resolve by winning the allegiance of Victor IV to end the succession crisis that came with Honorius II's death and Anacletus II's becoming an antipope to Innocent II.
{Bernard of Clairvaux}