name

Alan of Lille

Alan von Lille / Ryssel

Alain de Lille

                       latin name

Alanus ab Insulis

                commemoration

January 30

                                 born

appr. 1117 / 1128 in Lille

                higher education

Chartres, Paris, Orléans, Tours ?

                  ordained priest

?

       begin of monastic life

? as lay-brother (monk, oblate ?) 

in Cîteaux

                  responsibilities

"Magister" in Paris (after 1150)

theologian, philosophe, poet

                                  died

approx. 1202 / 1203 in Cîteaux

                               buried

in Cîteaux