Peter Cellensis [SEP] position held
Peter Cellensis
Peter Cellensis, also known as Peter of Celle, Peter of Celles, Pierre de Celle and Peter de la Celle, (c. 1115 in Troyes – 20 February 1183, at Chartres) was a French Benedictine and bishop.
Life.
He was born into an aristocratic family of Champagne and educated in the Cluniac Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris. He spent part of his youth at Provins with his longfriend John of Salisbury. Became a Benedictine, and in 1150 was made
Absalon was sent by Peter Cellensis as a replacement for Prior P.
- Inganus was the recipient of a further letter of Peter Cellensis, in which he is explicitly addressed as prior, so must have been presented by 1181. He is named as prior again in one of the Staffordshire Pipe Rolls of 1205–6, when he was struggling to pay a fine to recover control of the priory estates after King John's confiscation.
- John was presented by the abbot in 1233: this was noted in a mandate from Henry III