Klemens 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII/E VIII |
| Dates | 690 (taq) / 728 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Clemens |
| Religion | Christian |
| Ethnicity | Anglo-Saxon |
| Locations | Frisia (officeplace);
Britannia (residence);
Britannia;
Francia;
Rome;
Frisia |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop of the Frisians (office) |
| Textual Sources | Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford, 1969) (history);
Calendar (Bibl. Nat. Lat. 10837), in Lib. Pont. I, p.382 (calendar);
Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle) |
Klemens 5 (Clemens) was bishop (archbishop) of the Frisians; he was ordained by pope Sergius I (Sergios 30, bishop of Rome from 687 to 701): Lib. Pont. 86. 16 ("hic ordinavit Bertoaldum Brittaniae archiepiscopum atque Clementem in gentem Frisonum"). [Duchesne, Lib. Pont., p. 382, note] cites evidence from Bede, Chron. ad a. 698: "idem papa Sergius ordinavit venerabilem virum Vilbrordum, cognomine Clementem, Fresonum genti episcopum, in qua usque hodie" (i.e. 726) "pro aeterna patria peregrinus, est enim de Brittania gentis Anglorum, innumera quotidie diabolo detrimenta et Christianae fidei facit augmenta"; and from Bede, Hist. Eccl. V 11: "misit Pippinus, favente omnium consensu, virum venerabilem Vilbrordum Romam, cuius adhuc pontificatum Sergius habebat, postulans ut eidem Fresonum genti archiepiscopus ordinaretur. Quod ita ut petierat impletum est anno ab incarnatione Domini DCXCVI. Ordinatus est autem in ecclesia sanctae martyris Caeciliae, die natalis eius, imposito sibi a papa memorato nomine Clementis; ac mox remissus ad sedem episcopatus sui, id est post dies XIIII ex quo in Urbem venerat." Duchesne notes an error in the date given by Bede, 22 November 696, which was a Wednesday, and corrects it from marginal notes in a calendar in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Lat. 10837) to 21 November 695, citing a note by Willibrord himself for the year ("in nomine Domini Clemens Willibrordus anno sexcentesimo nonagesimo ab incarnatione Christi veniebat ultra mare in Francia et in Dei nomine anno sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto ab incarnatione Domini, quamvis indignus fuit ordinatus in Romae episcopus ab apostolico viro domno Sergio papa; nunc vero in Dei nomine agens annum septengentesimum vigesimum octavum ab incarnatione domini nostri Iesu Christi. In Dei nomine. Feliciter"). The date is fixed by the marginal note in the same calendar on the twenty-first of November: "Ordinatio domni nostri Clementis". His name was originally therefore Willibrord (Vilbrordus) and Clemens was the name given him by the pope at his consecration. He went to Francia in 690, was made bishop at Rome on 21 November 695, and was still alive in 728.
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