Porcarius (French: Porcaire or Porchaire) is the Latin word for "swineherd" and was occasionally used as a masculine given name in the early Middle Ages...

Porcarius II, in French Porchaire II or Porcaire II (died c. 732), was a Benedictine abbot who governed the Abbey of Lérins at a time when the monastery...

Civilizational Formation (Brill, 2018), p. 164. André Wilmart, "Les Monita de l'abbé Porcaire", Revue Bénédictine 26.1 (1909): 475–480. doi:10.1484/j.rb.4.02249...

challenged the monks over the rights of justice with regard to Pontigny, Saint-Porcaire, Beugnon, Beauvais, and Aigremont. The case reached King Philip IV, who...