Historical Figures 20 Questions

13. No.

Allow me to summarise:

A religious figure, but not a pope, involved with military forces but not the war against the Moors*, born in western Europe between 1000 and 1200. A Christian who was not a politician in the modern sense.



*To avoid any confusion, war against the Moors solely refers to whatever wars were fought in Spain against the Muslims.

Now, allow me to come up with a freebie that doesn't give it away.
 
I'm not counting that because we had established that he was not a politician in the modern sense (sorry, I forgot to put that in my summary).


Here's a freebie: This person spent the latter part of his life lamenting the failure of what he had dedicated his work to.
 
I am focussing on the Crusades. Did this figure's military role have anything to with it?

(Even if we know this, it's still a huge task, but if it's not the Crusades, that's good to know I guess)
 
15. Yes, this person was involved in the Crusades.


MAJOR freebie: This person was involved in the Second Crusade.
 
I confess that I do not know all these figures by heart.
Thanks to Per's freebees and a bit of research (that's allowed I guess?) I was led to a certain figure who fits the description apart from the military role...

Still I'll give it a try, especially because of Per's hint about "his" failure.


Bernard of Clairvaux?
 
It is St Bernard of Clairvaux!

The military role I referred to is his preaching for the second Crusade and the laudatio novis milites, the preaching in favour of the Templar knights. St Bernard was in fact so important in preaching the Crusade that he in person was made responsible for its ultimate failure.

He is, however, also known to history for being the predominant theologian of the 12th century, mostly for his merciless disputes with one of the greatest minds of his time, Petrus Abaelardus. The founder and abbot of the monastery of Clairvaux, St Bernard was also responsible for the spread of the Cistercian monastic order and is credited with the breakthrough of lay piety in the Middle Ages.
 
And he dealt with Rudolphe, a fanatical French monk, who was apparently inspiring massacres of Jews in the Rhineland, Cologne, Mainz, Worms, and Speyer. Bernard traveled from Flanders to Germany to deal with the problems in person. He then found Rudolphe in Mainz and was able to silence him, returning him to his monastery.
 
I shall read about this figure and learn more of him...which is one of the reasons I started the game!
 
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