Orléans heresy

The heresy of Orléans was a heresy which is reported in several texts and chronicles of the 11th century. In the year 1022 about twelve high scholars were burned from the environment of Queen Constance of Arles as heretics on the Capetian king Robert II command, including the canons of the cathedral of Orléans. It is the first known combustion of the Christian Middle Ages. Both from the harshness of punishment as well as the level of education of the accused here was the affair of Orléans, which is received as a " scholar - heresy " in the history books, a one-time process that during the so-called " heretical Spring" in the 11th century occurred.

The teaching of the heretics of Orléans, which one has tried without success to contact the previous and subsequent heresies in relationship, presented the role of grace act and the sale of ecclesiastical sacraments in question; they preferred an inner spiritual quest, accompanied by a strict asceticism. The heretics doubted the authority of the bishops, whose lay investiture was less and less tolerated, especially in the context of an ecclesiastical reform movement, which found broad support in medieval society. However, from their radicalism forth the required theological innovations went far beyond the modernization of the Church and implied a profound change in the social order of the medieval Christian West. For this reason, the secular and church officials sought to stigmatize by an exemplary conviction and sentence, the dissenters severely.

On the other hand, you have the heresy of Orléans seen in the context of a political dispute which occurred between King Robert II and the Count of Blois Odo II: although Orléans belonged to the Domaine royal and important royal residence was his neighboring rulers were afraid that Counts of Blois, not afraid to take effect on the Orléaner episcopate. Your candidate Odolric de Broyes, a relative of the house of Blois, was able to prevail against the previous and favored by the King's Bishop Dietrich II of Orléans in 1022 successfully. This was forced into a self- convened by King Synod to depose as he stood near the queen and the heretics.