Family tree of Bernard DE CLAIRVAUX

Priest, nun, rabbi, imam...

French Born Bernard DE CLAIRVAUX

French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order

Born on 1090 in Fontaine-lès-Dijon , France

Died on August 13, 1153 in Clairvaux , France

Deceased on august 20 22

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de GRANCEY

Ebles

1020 -

de CHÂTILLON-sur-SEINE

Tescelin

de GRANCEY

Saruc

1043 -

de MONTBARD

Bernard Ier

1040 - 1103

Humberge

de CHÂTILLON-sur-SEINE

Tescelin

1065 - 1120

de MONTBARD

Aleth

1065 - 1105

de CLAIRVAUX

Bernard

1090 - 1153

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Bernard's parents were Tescelin, Lord of Fontaines, and Aleth of Montbard, both belonging to the highest nobility of Burgundy. Bernard was the third of a family of seven children, six of whom were sons. At the age of nine years, Bernard was sent to school at Châtillon-sur-Seine, run by the secular canons of Saint-Vorles. Bernard had a great taste for literature and devoted himself for some time to poetry. His success in his studies won the admiration of his teachers. Bernard wanted to excel in literature in order to take up the study of the Bible. He had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, and he would later write several works about the Queen of Heaven.

Bernard would expand upon Anselm of Canterbury's role in transmuting the sacramentally ritual Christianity of the Early Middle Ages into a new, more personally held faith, with the life of Christ as a model and a new emphasis on the Virgin Mary. In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding that the scholastics adopted, Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.

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