Bernard of Sédirac

His significance in the history of Spain lies in the fact that during his episcopate the church of Castile and León emerges from its isolation.

It is thought he belonged to the ancient family of the viscounts of Sédirac (also spelled Sédilhac), whose castle, southwest of La Sauvetat, still stands.

Here he was made (1080) abbot of St. Facundus at Sahagún in the diocese of León, and finally named for the archbishopric of Toledo by Alfonso VI of Castile, the great patron of Cluny.

Gregory's plans for Spain included (besides a general crusade against clerical marriage, simony, and lay investiture) the substitution of the Roman liturgy for the Mozarabic and pressure for recognition of obligations of tribute from the Spanish church.

Urban II, by raising Bernard's see to primatial dignity, gave him the power necessary to prosecute the work of Romanizing.

Sepulchre of bishop of Sigüenza and Archbishop of Toledo since the conquest of 1086, Bernard de Sedirac, a.k.a. Bernard of Agen , ( France 1050 - Spain 1125), at the Cathedral of Sigüenza
This around two-millenniums existent military stronghold, at the Spanish City of Sigüenza was reformed and improved by French born bishop of Sigüenza Bernard de Sedirac, a.k.a. Bernard of Agen , (1050 - 1125), Archbishop of Toledo since the conquest of 1086, around the first years of the 1120s. It was for several centuries afterwards the residence of the bishops