Gibelin de Sabran

Gibelin de Sabran , born about the 1045, deceased on April 6th, 1112 in Palestine. Archbishop of Arles (1180-1112), papal legate (1107) and patriarch of Jerusalem (1108-1112).

Biography

With the council of Avignon, held in 1080 to which the archbishop Arles Aicard assists, Gibelin is officially named archbishop of Arles and relieved Aicard. Gibelin is devoted by the Pope.

An archbishop refused by his diocesans

In practice, this change of archbishop is animated. Indeed, the clergy and the people of Arles wish to preserve their archbishop of the family of the Vicomtes of Marseilles which took party for the emperor Henri IV against the pope Gregoire VII. This is why, Gibelin, in spite of the support of the count Bertrand Ier of Provence cannot take possession of its diocese. Threatened by the arlésiens at the time of its entry downtown, it must give up and will have to be satisfied during many years with the évêché with Avignon where it folds up starting from 1094.

An archbishop of substitution

He will have to wait a long time before returning at Arles, almost twenty-years, until worms 1098 - 1099, where benefitting from a voyage of Aicard in Palestine, he is made raise by a Bubble of the Pope Urbain II of the oaths (renouncement of the archbishop's palace of Arles) which he had pronounced in 1080 pennies the threat of Arlésiens.
It is then mentioned as archbishop of Arles on several occasions. March 29th 1102 for example, one reports that Gibelin, archbishop of Arles, chair the assembly which attaches the monastery of Saint-Novel of the Needle to Psalmodie. In the same way, in 1105, Raymond of Toulouse count of Saint-Gilles, in his will, orders with its heirs to restore in Gibelin, archbishop of Arles all that it had usurped to him in Arles, Argence, Fourques, with the Baron (Albaron) and with Fos. In 1106 finally, the archbishop of Arles Gibelin equips the Abbaye with Montmajour with the Notre-Dame churches and Saint-Novel, in the valley of Mouriès under an annual taxable quota of seven pennies.

Patriarch of Jerusalem

With the end of the year 1107, Gibelin leaves Arles and share in its turn in Palestine at the request of the pope Pascal II which sends it as legate to regulate a business relating to Ebremar (or Evremar), the patriarch of Jerusalem. But finally, it is Gibelin which inherits this load the following year, charges that it will preserve until in 1112.

Gibelin de Sabran dies in Palestine in April 1112. It will be replaced officially on the seat of the diocese of Arles only three years later in 1115 by Atton de Bruniquel. However, it is probable that Aicard, its excommunicated predecessor, recovered semi-officially archevéché at the beginning of Gibelin in Palestine in 1107 and preserved it until 1113, supposed date of its death.

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