Mainard of Turin (also Maginard and Meinhard) (died 10 September 1117 or 1118) was an Italian bishop. He was bishop of

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

from 1100 until his death. Mainard made donations to the monastery of San Solutore in Turin and the house of canons at San Lorenzo in Oulx in Turin. Alongside Margrave Boniface del Vasto, Mainard tried unsuccessfully to settle a long-running dispute between the

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

of San Pietro in Turin and the sons of Viscount Vitelmo-Bruno of Baratonia (located c.21 km north-west of the city of Turin).G. Colombo and A. Leone, eds., ''Documenti di Scarnafigi'' (Pinerolo, 1906), Appendix, no. 5. The dispute was about the control of

tithes A tithe (; from Old English: ''teogoþa'' "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash or cheques or more r ...

Scarnafigi Scarnafigi is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about north of Cuneo. Scarnafigi borders the following municipalities: Lagnasco, Monasterolo di Savigliano, Ru ...

References

*F. Savio, ''Gli antichi vescovi d’Italia. Il Piemonte'' (Turin, 1899), pp. 353–355, accessible online at

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