Pons de Melgueil
Pons de Melgueil , died in 1126, was the seventh Abbé of Cluny.
Biography
Wire junior by Pierre I {{er}} of Melgueil, Pons belongs to the nobility of the Languedoc. It is related to the counts d' Auvergne and to the counts de Toulouse.
Pons de Melgueil succeeds Hugues of Cluny in 1109 with the head of the abbey of Cluny. It obtains from the pope the right to wear certain episcopal clothes, initially personal privilege, then extended to all the abbots of Cluny. It shows sympathy towards the Ordre cistercian, still any young person, and helps the Abbaye of Clairvaux to gain its financial autonomy while giving the Dîme S that it owes him on the grounds and the herds. Partisan of a certain form of reform in Cluny even, it is the subject of severe criticisms at the time of the council of Rheims, in 1159.
In a context marked by the first financial problems of the order clunisien, Pons is disputed more and more by its monks. He is convened in Rome by the pope Calixte II and resigns shortly after. Hugues II of Cluny succeeds to him between April and July 1122 but, already old at the time of its election, he dies at the end of three months and is replaced by Pierre de Montboissier, that the posterity will call Pierre Worthy the. Pons de Melgueil become again simple monk gains Rome, then the Holy Land.
In 1123, Pons returns to Italy where it founds a monastery close to Vicence
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