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Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernardus Claraevallensis la
Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153)
- Child of Tescelin de Fontaine and Alèthe
- Dated c. 1091 CE – 20 August 1153 CE
- Recognised as Catholic saint, 1174 CE
abbot of Clairvaux
abbot
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
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Belonged toCatholic Church
largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity -
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Belonged toCistercians
Roman Catholic order of the Benedictine reform in the tradition of the monastery of Citaux
Offices held 2
- 1115 CE – 1153 CE abbot of Clairvaux
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Family
The family of Bernard of Clairvaux
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 6
Family 6
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
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Bernard of Clairvaux Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153) 
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Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Connections
How Bernard of Clairvaux connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
15 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 13 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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