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58:, preserve a summary of orthodox Christian doctrine of the early eleventh century, as well contemporary peace-making practices. According to this text's author, the heretics were convinced by Gerard's explanation of orthodoxy, renounced their heresy, and were reconciled with the church. 198:, a former nunnery converted into a male monastery in 1024. Its abbot, Leduin, was a close ally of Gerard's in the campaign for monastic reform in the diocese. Leduin possessed a manuscript, used by Gerard, containing 149:, "that there were distinctions between men, an essential inequality which could be compensated only by charity, mercy and mutual service" within the framework of divinely ordained natural law. 176:, for simply releasing suspected heretics after they had made an orthodox declaration of faith, and for allowing somebody excommunicated in Cambrai to be buried in consecrated ground in Liège. 432:
Steven Vanderputten and Diane J. Reilly, "Reconciliation and Record Keeping: Heresy, Secular Dissent and the Exercise of Episcopal Authority in Eleventh-Century Cambrai",
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David C. Van Meter, "The Peace of Amiens-Corbie and Gerard of Cambrai's oration of the three functional orders: the date, the context, the rhetoric",
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Gerardus Cameracensis. Acta Synodi Atrebatensis, Vita Autberti, Vita Gaugerici; Varia scripta ex officina Gerardi exstantia
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In 1015, Gerard transferred the abbey of Florennes to the church of Liège. drawing together a community of monks from
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Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible
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Gerard was the earliest known theorist to provide a justification of the division of European society into "
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He was named by the Emperor, 10 February 1012, and consecrated at Reims 27 April (Erik van Mingroot, ed.
46:, King of France. In 1024 Gerard called a synod in Arras to confront a purported heresy fomented by the 120: 82: 393:
Geoffrey G. Koziol (1987), "Monks, Feuds, and the Making of Peace in Eleventh-Century Flanders,"
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The abbey church was consecrated in 1026. The early history of the abbey is known via the
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Arnold, Benjamin. "German Bishops and their Military Retinues in the Medieval Empire".
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on his father's estate at Florennes, with Richard as its first abbot.
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Quoted in Rodney Bruce Hall, "Moral Authority as a Power Resource"
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Les chartes de Gérard Ier, Liébert et Gérard II, évêques de Cambrai
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in 1024 he introduced the Peace into Flanders at the urging of
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of the tenth century, and a supporter of the monastic reformer
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Gerard was apparently a member of the high nobility of the
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Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques
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Index

Gerardus Cameracensis
bishop of Cambrai
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Robert the Pious
Gundulfian
Eucharist
Low Countries
Florennes
county of Namur
count of Hainaut
Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Count Godfrey "the captive"
Gerbert of Aurillac
theologian
Richard of Verdun, abbot of Saint-Vanne
canon
Reims
Abbey of St John the Baptist
Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Lambert I, Count of Leuven
Reginar IV
Mons
Verdun
three estates
Georges Duby
Investiture Controversy
Peace and Truce of God
Douai
Count Baldwin IV
Reginard

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