Bernard of Cluny

• Name	Bernard of Cluny
  Birth	Murles, Hérault, Occitan, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I27442	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Guillem V de Montpellier,   b. Abt 1073   d. 1121 (Age ~ 48 years)
  Mother	Ermesenda   d. Aft 21 Feb 1122
  Marriage	Between 1086 and 1087  [2]
  Family ID	F7463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  William V of Montpellier certainly had a younger son named Bernard. And this Bernard's brother-in-law Bernard IV of Melgueil was certainly a nephew of Pons, seventh abbey of Cluny, under whom Cluny's power and influence greatly grew. James Westfall Thompson's 1907 "Notes and Studies on the Identity of Bernard of Cluny" (citation details below) makes a good circumstantial, if not probative, case that this Bernard was the twelfth-century Benedictine monk best known for De contemptu mundi and the hymn "Omni die dic Mariae" ("Daily, daily sing to Mary"). Who is called in several contemporary records Morlanensis.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3882] James Westfall Thompson, "Notes and Studies on the Identity of Bernard of Cluny." The Journal of Theological Studies 8:394, 1907. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.