Garnier de Rochefort

Garnier de Rochefort (died c. 1225) was a French churchman who was successively abbot of Auberive [fr] (1175–1180), abbot of Clairvaux (1186–1193) and Bishop of Langres (1193–1199).

Garnier was descended from a noble family of Rochefort-sur-Brévon. He first became a monk at the Longuay Abbey [fr]. In 1180, he became the prior, then in 1186 abbot, of Clairvaux.^[1][2] In 1193, on the death of Manassès de Bar [fr; ru], he was elected bishop of Langres. Charged in Rome with profligate overspending by Hilduin de Vendeuvre [fr], he was suspended by Pope Innocent III. He then made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On his return, he resigned and retired to Clairvaux until his death, which likely occurred in 1225 (though certain 19th-century historians say 1200).^[1]