Robert the Guy

Robert Small the , more known under the name of Robert the Guy , Dominican Inquisiteur of the 13th century.

Biography

Old “perfect” cathare in the Milanese, it gains there his nickname of “guy”, i.e. “Bulgarian”: one then supposed a relationship between the catharism and the Bulgarian Bogomilisme. Income in the rows of orthodoxy, it joined the order of the Dominican ones. In 1233, Gregoire IX appoints it inquisitor in Burgundy. Its zeal and its effectiveness, nourished of its experiment, lead it to waves of executions. It is distinguished in particular with the Charity-on-Loire, where it makes burn 50 heretics. It runs up then against the archbishops of Rheims and Directions, shocked by what they regard as an attack with their rights.

Suspended in 1234 per Gregoire IX, it can take again its activity as of the following year, this time with the title of general inquisitor of the kingdom of France. It takes again its rounds: from 1236 to 1239, it leads the Enquiry to Châlons-in-Champagne, Cambrai, Péronne, Douai and Lille, adding up about fifty heretics flarings. In 1239, it turns again to Champagne. Benefitting from the fair of Layered branches to organize a vast raid, it makes burn 183 people with Mount-Aime, according to the provided figure by the chronicler cistercian Aubry of the Three-Fountains, eyewitness.

Its end is badly known: it is probably dislocated as from 1236. He would have been condemned to the perpetual prison.

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