Source

Peter Waldo (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia's own article on Peter Waldo, a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it covers the well established outline of his life, the wealthy Lyon merchant who gave away his possessions around 1173, gathered followers preaching lay poverty and vernacular scripture, and was condemned at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 and excommunicated by 1184. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited tertiary source: fine biographical detail, his exact birth year and death year among them, is not firmly settled in the underlying medieval record itself, and the article says so rather than inventing false precision.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Tier three: a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, matching this atlas's established convention for a Wikipedia citation. Reliable for the well established outline of Peter Waldo's life; its own acknowledgment that his exact birth and death years are not firmly settled in the medieval record is the article being honest about a real historical gap rather than a defect in the source.

Notes

Tertiary encyclopedic overview, tier 3: used only for uncontested founding history of the Waldensian movement.

Citation

Author

Wikipedia contributors

Publisher

Wikipedia

Publication Year

2026

URL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Waldo

Source Type

reference

Connections

Associated With

Lyon

This source names Lyon directly: "outline of his life, the wealthy Lyon merchant who gave away his possessions around 1173, gathered followers preaching lay poverty and vernacular scripture, and was condemned at the Third Lateran..."

Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Peter Waldo

This source names Peter Waldo directly: "Wikipedia's own article on Peter Waldo, a tertiary encyclopedic source."

Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Sources

Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Claims Backed By This Source (122 claims)

This source backs 122 claims across the atlas. As facts: 108 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 2 connected. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Historical Figures, 58 claims: 52 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question, 1 holds, 3 general references.
Open Questions, 40 claims: 38 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
Denominations, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.