Godescalc

Godescalc (Gotefcalque), bishop of the Puy-en-Velay, famous to be themselves returned in 950 or 951 with Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle, and to have created what was to become a road of Pèlerinage to the Moyen-âge.

Of its voyage in Spain, it brings back manuscripts which it made copy, of which in particular a De Virginitate (the current Latin manuscript 2855 of the National library of France). It in particular made build the sanctuary of Michel saint of Aiguilhe, of inspiration Mozarab (polylobée frontage).

Sources

  • Bourbon, L. “the Godescalc bishop and the tradition compostellane”, Principle of Viana, n° 98-99, Pamplona, 1965, p. 69-74

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