Nicholas Jacquier

Nicolas Jacquier (also Jaquerius Nicolaus, Nicolaus Jacquier, Nicholas Jaquier, Nicholas Jacquier, Nicholas Jacquier, † 1472 in Lille) was a French Dominican inquisitor. He became known as the Witch theorists.

Jacquier took part in the 1432 Council of Basel, where he even appears as a member of Deputatio fidei in May 1440. In Arras in 1459, he experienced the persecution of the Vaudois ( Waldenses ) with. 1464 he lived in the Dominican convent of Lille. He went in 1465 in Tournai, 1466-1468 in Bohemia as inquisitor against heretics before. 1468 he is again assigned as Inquisitor in Lille.

Jacquier explained in his book flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum that is dated within the text itself in 1458 and was first printed in 1581, witchcraft as heresy and so justified the persecution of witches.

In his book he gives to deter dissent, the confession of the Benedictine monk Edelin (also: de Line, Master Guilhelmus ) again. This had spoken out, claiming that magic flight and heretics Sabbath based entirely on imagination against the witch craze. Edelin was convicted in 1453 in Evreux, a heretic process. His memory was forgotten, because the witch hunters in the aftermath of Jacquier threatened in many countries like-minded people with a similar fate.

In his book " heretics scourge " is Jacquier complained about the resistors, the pushed the inquisitors. " A lot of people claimed that the devil Sabbath was only a deceptive dream ... The devil could the assembled (on the devil Sabbath ) cronies there but pretend also mirages of innocent and unsuspecting people who were not present in reality, so is the display of an accused that he had seen this or that acquaintance on the Sabbath heretics, not conclusive. "

By this argument the prosecution of magic sect was called into question. Therefore Jacquier recommended ". Says the accomplices of accused, the devil had let only his simulacrum seem so reply to him, the devil did not you do this without the permission of God " Against the accused could not say.

Jacquier complains in his book " heretics scourge " especially about clerics who oppose the Inquisition. This related mainly to the northern provinces of France.

Through the intervention of the King of France and an award of the Parliament in Paris in 1491 failed Jacquier and the persecution of heretics in Arras.

Works

Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum ( 1458, printed for the first time in 1581 in Frankfurt am Main ) ( literal translation: scourge of the heretic bands).

He also wrote handwritten traditional theological treatises.