Aubry of Humbert
Appearance
Aubrey (or Alberic of Humbert) was the Archbishop of Reims from 1207 to 1218. He was a warrior prelate, participating in both the Albigensian Crusade of 1209 and the Fifth Crusade. In the latter, he traveled with Hungarian troops.[citation needed]
An inscription states that he laid the first stone of the Reims cathedral on 6 May 1211,[1][2] though there are doubts about his presence at the ceremony.[3]
Sources
- Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) A History of the Crusades: Volume II — The Later Crusades, 1189 – 1311. Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, editors. University of Wisconsin Press: Milwaukee, 1969.[page needed]
- ^ Jadart, H. (1898). "Les inscriptions commémoratives de la construction d'églises dans la région rémoise et ardennaise". Bulletin Monumental (in French): 194.
- ^ "Albéric de Humbert, archevêque de Reims, avec l'architecte de la cathédrale". Musées de Reims (in French).
- ^ Branner, Robert (January 1961). "Historical Aspects of the Reconstruction of Reims Cathedral, 1210-1241". Speculum. 36 (1). U. of Chicago press: 24. doi:10.2307/2849842.