Heinrich of Lausanne

Heinrich von Lausanne was a heretical traveling preacher in the beginning of the 12th century , whom historical research of the 18th century wrongly associated with Lausanne .

Heinrich is first attested to as a preacher in the Diocese of Le Mans in 1116 , where he caused massive unrest. His call to repentance and the ostracism of sinful priests, as well as the forced marriage of prostitutes, led to the revocation of his permission to preach and to his expulsion. Heinrich's new sphere of activity was the south of France and Provence , where he was imprisoned by the Archbishop of Arles in 1135 . At a council in Pisa , the itinerant preacher renounced his heretical faith and swore to join the Cistercian monastery of Cîteaux . However, after 1135 he can be identified as a preacher in the Midi , where he - based on Petrus von Bruys ? - took increasingly radical theses about church office , priesthood and believers. A conversation between Heinrich and a monk Wilhelm has been handed down in this regard. In spite of his renewed conviction at the Second Lateran Council in 1139, Heinrich continued to preach and must have had some popularity, especially in Toulouse . In 1145 the famous Cistercian abbot Bernhard von Clairvaux tried a "counter-mission". Heinrich was taken prisoner, nothing is known about his further fate.

Heinrich can also be considered the founder of a sect , his followers were the Henricians.

literature

• A. Patschovsky: Heinrich "von Lausanne" . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 2096.
• K. Herbers (ed.): Europe at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century. Contributions in honor of Werner Goez. Stuttgart 2001, pp. 235f
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Heinrich of Lausanne. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 682-682.
• Jan Hering: Heinrich 'von Lausanne'. A traveling preacher of the 12th century in the field of tension between reform, heresy and schism, in: Cistercienser Chronik 122, 2015, pp. 427–456, and 123, 2016, pp. 93–119 and 477–507.