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Peter of Bruys (also known as Pierre De Bruys or Peter de Bruis; fl. 1117 – c.1131) was a medieval French religious teacher. He was called a heresiarch (leader of a heretical movement) by the Roman Catholic Church because he opposed infant baptism, the erecting of churches and the veneration of crosses, the doctrine of transubstantiation and prayers for the dead.
Peter of Bruys (variously known as Pierre De Bruys or Peter de Bruis; fl. 1117 – c.1131) was a French heresiarch who taught doctrines that were in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church's beliefs. An angry mob killed him in or around the year 1131 .
Orléans heresy (1022) (burnt); Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555
Peter was able to use the prestige from his victories in the south against the Moors, along with the persuasion of a delegation sent to Rome, to lead Innocent III to order a halt to the crusade. Innocent trusted Peter and was hoping to bring an end to the Albigensian Crusade to launch a new crusade in the Middle East and to maintain pressure on ...
In the system of Peter of Bruys baptism is necessary for salvation, however only a baptism that is done on believers. Petrobrusians saw the cross as a symbol of Christ's suffering, thus they cannot be venerated, and Petrobrusians destroyed crosses into bonfires, in the theology of Peter the gospels were interpreted literally, however the New Testament epistles were subordinate to the gospels. [3]
Around 1139, Peter of Cluny, wrote a treatise called Epistola seu tractatus adversus Petrobrusianos (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxxix) against the disciples of Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne, whom he calls Henry of Bruys, and whom, at the moment of writing, he accuses of preaching, in all the dioceses in the south of France, errors which he had ...
The moderate Hussites are recognized by the Catholic Church and allowed to practice their own rite; The radical Hussites are defeated, and their rites forbidden; Sigismund of Luxembourg becomes King of Bohemia; The Basel Compacts, signed by Emperor Sigismund and Catholic and Hussite representatives, effectively end the Hussite Wars
The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement, with influences from both the Byzantine Rite and John Wycliffe, and that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl. 1401–1415), a part of the Bohemian Reformation.