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Calétric Of Chartres
Calétric or Colétric of Chartres was a 6th-century French bishop and saint. His name is also spelled ''Caletricus'', ''Chaletricus'' or ''Chalactericus'' (in Venantius Fortunatus), whilst in French it also appears in the popular forms Caltry or Calais, probably by confusion with the abbot-saint of Le Maine. His feast day is on 4 September. His predecessor as bishop of Chartres was Lubin of Chartres, who is last definitively mentioned in 551. Caletric definitely died before 573, the year when his successor Pappolus of Chartres, Pappolus took part in a council in Paris. However, as that council was called by Sigebert I on splitting the diocese of Chartres, Calétric probably died shortly before it. According to Fortunatus he died aged only 38. Calétric himself is only contemporaneously known from his attendance at two other councils - one in Paris sometime between 557 and 563 and the other in Tours in 567/568. He also appeared in a 9th century ''Life of Saint Lubin'', which st ...
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Bishop Of Chartres
The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the ''Vieille Chronique'' of Chartres (1389). To 1000 * Saint Aventin (Adventinus) * Optat (?) * Valentin c. 395 * Martin le Blanc (Martinus Candidus) * Aignan * Severe * Castor * Africanus (?) * Possesseur (Possessor) * Polychronius * Palladius (?) * Arbogast * Flavius (?) * Saint Solen or Solenne ( Solemnis) * c. 511 Saint Aventin * ?–552 Ethere, also Euthere (Etherus) * ?–557 Leobinus (Lubin de Chartres) * ?–567 Calétric of Chartres * Pappolus (Papulus, Pabulus) * Boetharius or Bohaire, Betharius, Béthaire de Chartres c. 600 * Magnobode or Magobertus, Magnebodus, Mugoldus (?) * Sigoald * Mainulf * Thibaut * Lancegesile or Bertegisilus (Leodegisilus, Lancissilus, Langesilisus, Bertegisilus) * c. 640–658?: Saint Malard * Gaube ...
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