, or Yves, in Latin Ivo, the celebrated bishop of Chartres, was born in the
, or Yves, in Latin Ivo, the celebrated bishop of
Chartres, was born in the territory of Beauvais, in 1035.
He was raised to the see of Chartres in 1092 or 1093,
under the pontificate of Urban XI. who had deposed Geofroy, our author’s predecessor in the see, for various crimes
of which he was accused. Ives particularly signalized his
zeal against Philip I. who had put away his wife Bertha,
of Holland, and taken Bertrade of Montford, the wife of
Fouques de Requin, count of Anjou. This divorce was
contrary to the ecclesiastical law; and the affair would
have been attended with bad consequences had not the
prince’s friends interposed. After this, the bishop employed himself wholly in the functions of his ministry,
made several religious foundations, and died 1115. His
corpse was interred in the church of St, John in the Vale,
which he had founded. Pope Pius V. by a bull, dated
Dec. l&, 1570, permitted the monks of the congregation
of Lateran to celebrate the festival of St. Ives. We have,
of his compiling, “A collection of Decrees;
” “Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularum;
” besides “22 Sermons,
”
and a “Chronicon;
” all which were collected in Decrees
” were printed in
Pannomia,
” or “Panormia,
”
and some other pieces printed in the “Bibliotheca patrum,
” are also ascribed to our bishop.