{{short description|Florentine Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem}} '''Aymar the Monk''' ({{langx|fr|Aymar Le Moine}}, {{langx|la|Haymarus Monachus}}; died October 1202), also known as '''Aimery'''<ref>Bernard Hamilton, ''The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church'' (Ashgate, 1980), p. 245.</ref> or '''Aimaro Monaco dei Corbizzi''', was Archbishop of Caesarea and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
== Biography == He was born in Florence. From 1171 to 1177 he was magister and chancellor of the patriarch of Jerusalem Amalric of Nesle.<ref name=Scri>{{cite web|url=http://scrineum.unipv.it/wight/ol6-77.htm|title=Siglorum conspectus|language=it|access-date=27 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203065925/http://scrineum.unipv.it/wight/ol6-77.htm|archive-date=3 February 2012}}</ref> At the time this prelate of Florentine origin was simply called "Monachus";<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hD0rDwAAQBAJ&dq=Aymar+the+Monk&pg=PT531 Kleinhenz, Christopher. ''Medieval Italy'', Volume II, 2004, no pagination] {{isbn|9781351664424}}</ref> the name "Aymar" and his belonging to the Corbizzi family are instead considered historically unfounded later additions. The noble Corbizzi family was originally from Fiesole in Tuscany.
He was Archbishop of Caesarea in Palestine from 1181 until 1194, when the clergy of the Holy Sepulchre, who desired a patriarch residing in the east, elected him the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the latter seat vacant from 1191. The Monk held this position until his death in Palestine in October 1202. He may have held the position of archbishop of Caesarea together with that of the Patriarch for three years, until 1197. <ref name = Scri/> He was present at the siege of Acre and described it in a poem entitled ''De expugnata Accone liber tetrastichus seu rithmus de expeditione ierosolimitana''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://lovendrin.oldiblog.com/?page=lastarticle&id=1493101|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712060159/http://lovendrin.oldiblog.com/?page=lastarticle&id=1493101|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2012|title=Estratto di una traduzione in francese della ''Presa di Acri''|language=it|access-date=27 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Riant |first=Paul Édouard Didier |url=https://archive.org/details/HaymariMonachiRiant1866/page/n11/mode/2up |title=Haymari monachi archiepiscopi Cæsariensis et postea Hierosolymitani patriarchæ De expugnata Accone liber tetrastichus seu Rithmus de expeditione Ierosolimitana quem ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum Bibl. reg. Babenbergensis et Bibl. Coll. Oriel. Oxoniensis recognovit, præviaque disquisitione ornavit P. E. D. Riant |date=1866 |publisher=Lyon : Perrin |language=Latin}}</ref>
His biography, "Memorie istoriche di Monaco de' Corbizzi fiorentino Patriarca di Gerusalemme"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mariti |first=Giovani |url=https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/memorieistoriche00mari/memorieistoriche00mari.pdf |title="Memorie istoriche di Monaco de' Corbizzi fiorentino Patriarca di Gerusalemme," |date=1781 |trans-title="Historical Memoirs of the Monk of Corbizzi Florentine Patriarch of Jerusalem,"}}</ref> by Giovanni Mariti was published in 1781.
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