Henry of Lausanne

Henry of Lausanne was a heretical itinerant preacher, brought the historical research of the 18th century with falsely Lausanne in connection in the beginning of the 12th century.

Henry is first attested in 1116 as a preacher in the diocese of Le Mans, where it caused massive unrest. His call to repentance and to outlaw sinful living priests led as well as the forced marriages of prostitutes to withdrawal of Predigerlaubnis and to his expulsion. New Coverage of Henry were the South of France and Provence, where he was imprisoned in 1135 by the Archbishop of Arles. At a council at Pisa the itinerant preacher abjured his heretical beliefs and implored his admission to the Cistercian monastery Citeaux. However, by 1135 he is noticed by a preacher in the Midi, where he - in allusion to Peter of Bruys? - Increasingly more radical theses on church office, priesthood and believers represented. Narrated in this regard is a conversation with a monk of Heinrich Wilhelm. Despite his renewed condemnation at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 Henry continued to preach and must particularly in Toulouse some feed have had. 1145 tried the famous Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux with a " counter- mission." Henry was captured, about his fate is unknown.

Henry can be regarded as founder of a sect, his followers were the Henricianer.