Tanchelm

Tanchelm († 1115 ) was an itinerant preacher known by the church as a heretic , who preached critical of the church at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century.

Joseph Ignaz Appiani : The Triumph of St. Nobert on the false teacher Tanchelm in 1124 , Mainz 1750 ( Bavarian National Museum , Munich)

Tanchelm is said to have been a monk and perhaps belonged to Count Robert II of Flanders (1092–1111). He preached since 1112 in Antwerp , Brabant , Flanders and Zeeland against the official church and its hierarchy, turned against the churches tenth and against cohabiting with women priests, was reportedly also in Rome , where he unsuccessfully for an extension of the diocese of Thérouanne on the Scheldeinseln is said to have used. Briefly imprisoned in Cologne (1113/1114), he was released despite protests from Utrecht cathedral clergy. A priest then killed Tanchelm in 1115.

Followers of Tanchelm, who, according to tradition, allowed himself to be venerated like god, can still be proven in Antwerp in the subsequent period, in 1124 Norbert von Xanten turned against them in a heretic sermon.

Tanchelm as a motif of the fine arts

In numerous paintings in churches and monasteries of the Premonstratensian Order, the struggle of St. Norbert depicted against Tanchelm .

literature

S. Beulertz: Tanchelm , in: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. 8, Stuttgart and Weimar 1999, Col. 455
Norman Cohn : The New Earthly Paradise. Revolutionary millenarianism and mystical anarchism in medieval Europe. (= rowohlt's encyclopedia). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988
Arend Quak: Tanchelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 487-488. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Romedio Schmitz-Esser: Tanchelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 774 f. ( Digitized version ).
Peter Segl: Heresies and intellectual awakening in the late Salier period , in: K. Herbers (ed.): Europe at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century. Contributions in honor of Werner Goez , Stuttgart 2001, pp. 217–237, here p. 235
Jacob Cornelis van Slee : Tanchelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 364 f.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Tanchelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tanchelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	heretical itinerant preacher
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	1115