Gregorius (Legendary character)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005111
- info:lc/authorities/sh87005111
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh87005111#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Grégoire (Legendary character)
- Gregory (Legendary character)
Broader Terms
- Legends--Europe
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Lübeck, A. Gesta Gregorii Peccatoris, c1986.
- found: Walshe. Medieval German literature: pp. 146-147 (A child...born of the incestuous union of a brother and sister...is cast upon the waters...[carried] to a distant shore...brought up by an abbot...becomes a knight...roams the countryside...rescues and marries a lady [his mother]...flees into the wilderness...has himself chained to a rock in the middle of a lake...lives a life of penance for 17 years...is escorted to Rome and crowned Pope...and happily reunited with his mother. "This pious tale is found in varying forms all of which probably go back to the same French original, in half the literatures of Europe: in Middle English, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Serbian, and Bulgarian ...")
Change Notes
- 1987-08-14: new
- 2012-07-16: revised

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