Giordano Forzatè
Giordano Forzatè (1158 – 7 August 1248) was a Paduan Benedictine monk.[1]
According to tradition, Giordano was born at Padua in 1158. His family, the Tanselgardi (or Transelgardi) Forzatè, belonged to the local aristocracy and were probably vassals of the bishop of Padua. Giordano is first mentioned as a monk of San Benedetto Vecchio in a document of 1203. Documents from the following years show that he received substantial sums of money through inheritance and trusts.[1]
Giordano was probably a doctor of canon law (decretorum doctor). On 7 June 1211, Pope Innocent III nominated him to the bishopric of Ferrara, but he declined, preferring to play a larger role in his native Padua and in the Benedictine Order. He served as apostolic delegate in Padua in 1213–14 (when he oversaw the election of Bishop Giordano following the death of Gerardo Offreducci) and in 1229 (when he oversaw the election of Giacomo Corrado).[1]
Giordano became prior of San Benedetto by 1213. He founded a new order, the Albi (Template:Lang-la, "Order of white monks of Saint Benedict of Padua"), which combined hospital functions with communities of canons, male and female monastics and hermits.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c d Laura Gaffuri (1997). "Forzatè, Giordano". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 49: Forino–Francesco da Serino (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Benjamin G. Kohl (2014), "Competing Saints in Late Medieval Padua" (PDF), in John Easton Law; Michael Knapton; Alison A. Smith (eds.), Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: The Legacy of Benjamin Kohl, Firenze University Press, pp. 323–366.
Further reading
- Rigon, Antonio. "Religione e politica al tempo dei da Romano: Giordano Forzatè e la tradizione agiografica antiezzeliniana". In Nuovi studi ezzeliniani, ed. Giorgio Cracco, 389–414. Rome, 1992.