Biographical dossier

Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

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Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q44091
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q44091
Wikidata ID
Q44091
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
AD 1170–AD 1221
Birth anchor
Caleruega (AD 1170)
Death anchor
Bologna (AD 1221)
HPI
81.85707968048578

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between AD 1170 and AD 1221. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Caleruega (AD 1170). Death: Bologna (AD 1221).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 9.571407648591606.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

Dominic belongs to the reform of preaching, the response to southern French heresy and the formation of the Order of Preachers. The profile connects itinerant preaching, papal confirmation, study and the rapid institutional expansion of the order.

Primary-source path

  • Jordan of Saxony, Libellus
  • Early Dominican constitutions
  • Papal letters of Honorius III
  • Process of canonization
  • Humbert of Romans as later institutional witness

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Caleruega; Death anchor: Bologna The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

Dominican OrderUniversitiesChurch Timeline

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.