Henri de Poitiers, Abbé de Cluny

Henri de Poitiers (-after 1132). William of Tyre names him as the brother of Raymond de Poitiers [1]. Bishop-elect of Soissons. He became a monk at Cluny, later Prior of Cluny. Abbot of Saint-Jean d'Angély until he was expelled by the monks [1]. "Cognatus" of Henry I King of England, who appointed him as Abbot of Peterborough in 1127 [15]. He was removed by King Henry in 1132 and retired to Saint-Jean d'Angély [1]. [1] WT XIV.XX, p. 655. [2] Orderic Vitalis, Vol. VI, Book XII, p. 317. [3] Orderic Vitalis, Vol. VI, Book XII, p. 317. [4] Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (2002) Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. II. Pipe Rolls to Cartæ Baronum (Boydell) (“Domesday Descendants”), p. 90. See Cicely Clark in English Historical Review LXXXIV (1969), pp. 548-60, cited in Chibnall, Vol. VI, p. 317 footnote 8, for an analysis of his career. (Medlands)