Pierre is first known as Abbot of
Pontigny from 1176 to 1178. Then from the end of 1180, he was Abbot of
Cîteaux.[1]
In the spring of 1184, Pierre became
Bishop of Arras[2] and was
consecrated during the
Synod of Verona, in the autumn of the same year. He held this position until his death, November 1, 1203.[3] [3], and he was buried in the Abbey of Pontigny.[4]
References
^Jean Marillier, charters and documents relating to the Abbey of Cîteaux, 1098-1182, (
Rome, 1961).
^Michel Benoît Tock, the Episcopal election in Arras, Lambert to Pierre Ier (1093-1203) in Belgian journal of philology and history, vol 70, 1987, p. 719.
^Michel Tock, the charters of the Bishops of Arras (1093-1203), Paris, 1991 (Collection of unpublished documents on the history of France, serie in - 8 °, 20), p. XXXIX.
^See also:Chrysogonus Waddell, Twelfth-century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, (Brecht, 2002), p. 146.