of Clairvaux Bernard de Chatillon-sur-Seine

1090 - 1153  (63 years)

• Name	Bernard de Chatillon-sur-Seine
  Title	of Clairvaux
  Birth	1090	Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France
  Gender	Male
  Education	1099	Châtillon-sur-Seine, Montbard, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France
  	sent to a school run by the secular canons of Saint-Vorles
  Author+of+the+text+for+the+hymn+%22Jesus%2C+the+Very+Thought+of+Thee.%22	Cited as the author of the text for this hymn in Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, published in 1985. Hymn #s 141 and 315 (Women).
  Military Service	co-founder of the Knights Templars
  Religious Affiliation	1113
  	a Benedictine monk of the Abbaye de Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux
  Religious Affiliation	1115	Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, Grand Est, France
  	founded Clairvaux Abbey at Val d'Absinthe
  Title of Nobility	From 1115 to 1153	Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, Grand Est, France
  	Abbot of Clairvaux Abbey at Val d'Absinthe
  Military Service	1128
  	convened the Council of Troyes - where he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar
  Religious Affiliation	led the Cistercian order of White Monks
  Religious Affiliation	major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.
  Burial	1153	Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Death	20 Aug 1153	Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Title of Nobility	1164
  	Saint - canonized by Pope Alexander III 21 years after his death
  _FSFTID	GMLR-2YM
  Person ID	I35206	My Genealogy | Gent Tree received from familysearch
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Sgr de Fontaine Tescelin le Roux Sorus,,   b. 1062, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France d. 11 Apr 1117, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Aleth "Blessed Alice" De Montbard,   b. 1066, Montbard, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France d. 31 Aug 1106, Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F14182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart