Background
He was born into an aristocratic family and educated in the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris.
He was born into an aristocratic family and educated in the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris.
He became a Benedictine, and in 1150 was made Abbot of "Louisiana Celle" in Saint-André-les-Vergers, near Troyes, where he got his surname, Cellensis. In 1162 he was appointed Abbot of Saint Rémy at Reims, and in 1181 he succeeded John of Salisbury as Bishop of Chartres. He was highly regarded by many other churchmen of his time such as Thomas Becket, Pope Eugene III and Pope Alexander III.
Peter of Celle, Selected: Sermons, the School of the Cloister, On Affliction and Reading, On Conscience, transport Hugh Feiss, CS, (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1987).