perhaps best remembered for the careful records that he kept of his regular visits to the
parishes and churches in his archdiocese to inquire into the lives of both clergy and
religious. From these records, we get a clear picture of the life of the church in the third
quarter of the 13th century (1248–69) and of the controversies and contentions, such as
those of the Pastoureaux, that occupied the archbishop.
Mark Zier
[See also: FRANCISCAN ORDER; PASTOUREAUX]
Eudes Rigaud. The Register of Eudes of Rouen, ed. and trans. Sidney M.Brown and Jeremiah
F.O’Sullivan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.
Schneyer, Johannes-Baptist, ed. Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters far die
Zeit von 1150–1350. 6 vols. Münster: Aschendorff, 1969–74, Vol. 4, pp. 510–16.
Andrieu-Guitrancourt, Pierre. L’archévêque Eudes Rigaud et la vie de l’église au XIIIe siècle.
Paris: Sirey, 1938.
Darlington, Oscar G. The Travels of Odo Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen (1248–1275). Diss.
University of Pennsylvania, 1938.
Henquinet, F.M. “Les manuscrits et l’influence des écrits théologiques d’Eudes Rigaud, OFM.”
Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 11(1939):324–50.
Principe, W. “Odo Rigaldus, a Precursor of St. Bonaventure on the Holy Spirit as effectus formalis
in the Mutual Love of the Father and Son.” Medieval Studies 39(1977):498–505.
Thomson, Williell. Friars in the Cathedral: The First Franciscan Bishops 1226–1261. Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1975, pp. 77–91.
EUGENIUS III
(d. 1153). Pope. A disciple of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and a Cistercian abbot of Saints
Vincent and Anastasius, Bernard of Pisa became Pope Eugenius III in 1145. Under his
pontificate, the first formal crusade bull was issued in 1145. The crusade proved
unsuccessful, and subsequently both Roger of Sicily and Louis VII of France urged
Eugenius to begin a new one. Eugenius refused to accede to their wishes. Skilled in
diplomacy, Eugenius had recognized the anti-Byzantine features of the proposed crusade,
and he had no wish to antagonize the Byzantines and their allies. Forced from Rome in
1146 by his archenemy Arnold of Brescia, Eugenius journeyed to France, where he
remained until 1148. While there, Eugenius held a synod and a council at Reims. At the
council, in 1148, Gilbert of Poitiers, once a student of Bernard of Chartres and later
bishop of Poitiers, was charged with heresy. With the help of Roger of Sicily, Eugenius
returned to Rome in 1149. In the Treaty of Constance, concluded in 1153, Eugenius and
Frederick I Barbarossa reached an important agreement guaranteeing a relationship of
mutual as sistance. Trained as a Cistercian monk, Eugenius remained a devout religious
despite his involvement in the politics of his day. His good friend St. Bernard dedicated
De consideratione to him. Eugenius died on July 8,1153, and his cult was authorized in
1872 by Pope Pius IX.
E.Kay Harris
[See also: BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX; CRUSADES; GILBERT OF POITIERS]
Eugenius III. Opera. PL 180.1013–642.
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