Zoen Tencarari Explained

Zoen Tencarari^[1] was an Italian canon lawyer, papal vice-legate, and bishop of Avignon from 1240 to about 1261. He taught at the University of Bologna,^[2] where in 1256 he founded a college.^[3] He glossed the Compilatio quinta, and brought Henry of Segusio to the see of Sisteron.^[4]

He was a strong opponent of the Albigensians.^[5] He presided at the Council of Albi of 1254.^[6]

He had work done to improve the residence of the bishops at Noves.^[7]

References

• Léon-Honoré Labande (1908), Avignon au 13eme siecle : l'eveque Zoen Tencarari et les Avignonnais

Notes and References

1. Tancalari.; according to Girolamo Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana (1823), he was born c. 1200, and was named Giovanni.
2. http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140i-p.htm Relevance not found
3. Universities . 27 . 751.
4. http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140d-h.htg/HOSTIENSIS.html Relevance not found
5. http://bulfinch.englishatheist.org/mm/inquisition/Chapter7.htm Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition In The Middle Ages, 1888: ch. vii
6. Thomas Joseph . Shahan . Council of Albi . 1.
7. http://pros.orange.fr/mairie.de.noves/tourisme/esplaa.html Noves website