Gregory of Catino

The abbey of Farfa today.

Gregory of Catino (1060 – aft. 1130) was a monk of the Abbey of Farfa and "one of the most accomplished monastic historians of his age."[1] Gregory died shortly after 1130, possibly in 1133.[2]

Gregory was born into the family of the counts of Catino, a town near Farfa. His father, Dono, entered him and his elder brother into Farfa as child oblates. Gregory was educated in the abbatial school founded by Abbot Hugh, and he remained resident at the abbey for the rest of his life.[1]

  1. ^ a b Marios Costambeys, Power and Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700–900 (Cambridge: 2007), 11.
  2. ^ The date of 1133, which may be a mere guess, comes from Ildefonso Schuster, L'imperiale abbazia di Farfa (Rome: 1921), 226.