ST/EW/152
Bernard of Clairvaux
- Gender
- Male
- Floruit (period)
- None
- Floruit date range
- 1090 - 1153
- Description
- Cistercian monk and abbot of Clairvaux. Bernard preached the Second Crusade, and was the author of the Rule of the Knights Templar. He was the force behind the Cistercians as a mass movement in the twelfth century. See further, G. R. Evans, Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford, 2000).