Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois was a 12th century French chronicler. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Generally a chronicle (chronica from Greek (from) is a historical account of facts and events in chronological order
He was trained at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Martial of Limoges, the site of a great early library. Benedictine refers to the Spirituality and Consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in Saint Martial was the first Bishop of Limoges in today's France, according to a lost Vita of Saturnin, first Bishop of Toulouse Limoges ( Lemòtges / Limòtges in the Limousin dialect of Occitan language) is a city and commune in France, the préfecture A library is a collection of information sources resources and services and the structure in which it is housed it is organized for use and maintained by a public body an institution
Geoffroy became abbot at Vigeois (1170-1184) where he composed his Chroniques which trace in detail some great local families (often Geoffroy's forebears and kin) while relating events happening from 994 to 1184: the fiery convulsive sickness, actually Ergotism from a fungus or ergot of wheat, the preparations for the First Crusade, reports of combats in the Holy Land, the genocide of the Cathars in the Albigensian Crusade (he used the term "Albigensians" in 1181), all the while unconsciously revealing the preoccupations and manners of the times. The word abbot, meaning Father, is a title given to the head of a Monastery in various traditions including Christianity. Vigeois is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. Events By Place Europe Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty Ergotism is the effect of long-term Ergot Poisoning traditionally due to the Ingestion of the Alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea Ergot is the common name of a Fungus in the Genus Claviceps that is parasitic on certain grains and grasses The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing The Holy Land ( Arabic: الأرض المقدسة al-Arḍ ul-Muqaddasah;Ancient Aramaic: ארעא קדישא Ar'a Qaddisha; Hebrew: ארץ_הקודש Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of an ethnic racial religious or national group The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209&ndash1229 was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the Cathar
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