Bermond Anduze (born, unknown — June 11, 1214) was an important
Catholic
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cleric and bishop in 12th century
France
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.
Biography
Bermond Anduze was the son of Bernard-Bermond Anduze and Garsinde. After his appointment as a
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, he was elected
bishop of Sisteron in July 1174. He ran a trade with the
Templars
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, on the Church of
Our Lady of Olon. In March 1179, Bermond went to
Rome
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and served on the
Council of Lateran. In 1183, in accordance with the decision taken by the Archbishop of
Moutiers-Tarentaise and the
Bishop of Valencia, he obliged the
monk
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s of the
Lure Abbey to leave the
Cistercian order and adopt the rule of the
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of
Chalais. In 1209, he attended the
Council of Saint-Gilles, where
Raymond VI of
Toulouse
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, and Pierre Bermond of Anduze, his
great-nephew, passed under the yoke of the
papal legate Milon.
Two years later, on February 18, 1211, he was in
Manosque
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, where he saw the
Papal legate and
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Thédise of
Agde
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Location
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assigned as the New consulate to the
Malta
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Commander.
Bermond Anduze died June 11, 1214.
[Helen Dwyer & Barry Dwyer, Index biographique français, vol 1, (London, 1993), p. 42, colonne 2.]
See also
*
Catholic Church in France
References
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Year of birth unknown
1214 deaths
People from Sisteron
13th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
12th-century French Roman Catholic bishops