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Peter Waldo (Wikipedia)
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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.
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Reliability Tier3
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. NotesTertiary encyclopedic overview, tier 3: used only for uncontested founding history of the Waldensian movement.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Waldo
Source Typereference
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Lyon, Cities 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..."
This source names Peter Waldo directly: "Wikipedia's own article on Peter Waldo, a tertiary encyclopedic source."
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This source backs 119 claims across the atlas. As facts: 107 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 2 connected. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Historical Figures, 55 claims: 51 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question, 1 holds, 1 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.
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