Tanchelm

Tanchelm († 1115 ) was a heretical itinerant preacher who preached church critically at the turn of the 11th and 12th century.

Tanchelm to have been a monk and perhaps belonged to the environment, Count Robert II of Flanders ( 1092-1111 ). He preached since 1112 in Antwerp, Brabant, Flanders and Zealand against the official church and its hierarchy, opposed the tithe and against cohabiting with women priests, was reportedly also in Rome, where he unsuccessfully for an extension of the diocese Therouanne on the Scheldt Islands should have used. In the short term detained in Cologne (1113/1114), he was released despite protests Utrecht Domkleriker. A priest then has killed 1115 Tanchelm.

Followers of Tanchelm who allegedly allowed himself to be worshiped like God, are still detectable in the subsequent period in Antwerp, in 1124, Norbert of Xanten turned into a heretic preaching against them.

Tanchelm as a motif of Fine Arts

In numerous paintings in churches and monasteries of the Premonstratensian order is the " fight of St.. Norbert against Tanchelm " shown.