Sorbonne founded in Paris
1257
Robert de Sorbon, a chaplain of Louis IX, established a college for poor theology students near the Seine. From these rooms a college, and eventually an entire faculty, grew. For centuries its name would serve as shorthand for French theological authority. The Sorbonne's theologians would weigh in on every major doctrinal controversy from the Great Schism to the Enlightenment, their opinions carrying near-papal weight.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.