Pierre Maurice de Montboissier

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Pierre Maurice de Montboissier, better known as Peter the Venerable, was a 12th-century French Benedictine monk and abbot of Cluny renowned for his theological writings and his role in promoting the first Latin translation of the Qur’an.

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instanceOf Benedictine monk
Catholic priest
Christian writer
French person
abbot
human
theologian
birthPlace Auvergne
Kingdom of France
birthYear c. 1092
c. 1094
commissioned first complete Latin translation of the Qur’an
contemporaryOf Bernard of Clairvaux
correspondedWith Bernard of Clairvaux
Peter Abelard
deathDate 25 December 1156
deathPlace Burgundy
Cluny
Kingdom of France
deathYear 1156
educatedAt Cluny Abbey
employer Cluny Abbey
endTime 1156
era 12th century
fieldOfWork Christian polemics
monastic reform
theology
hasName Peter the Venerable
Pierre Maurice de Montboissier
hasNameInLatin Petrus Venerabilis
knownFor being abbot of Cluny
correspondence with leading churchmen and secular rulers
promoting the first Latin translation of the Qur’an
theological writings
writings against heresies
writings on Jews and Muslims
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
Old French
mediatedIn conflict between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard
memberOf Benedictine Order
linked to: Benedictines

Order of Saint Benedict
linked to: Benedictines
nationality French
notableWork Contra Henricum monachum
Contra Petrobrusianos
Epistolae (letters)
Liber contra sectam sive haeresim Saracenorum
Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum
patronOf Robert of Ketton’s Latin translation of the Qur’an
positionHeld Abbot of Cluny
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
startTime 1122

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Peter the Venerable birthName Pierre Maurice de Montboissier
Pierre Maurice de Montboissier hasName Pierre Maurice de Montboissier