GUGLIELMO di HINDERNISSEN. - Carmelite, prior at Mechelen, then at Brussels, and head, together with Giles Cantor, of the sect of the "men of understanding" (homines intelligentias) existing at Brussels at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The origin of the sect perhaps goes back to the poetess Blommaerdine, whose pantheistic mysticism was combated in the preceding century by G. Ruysbroeck (cf. Anal. Boll., 4 [1885], p. 286).
The doctrine of the sect is related to that of the free spirit (v.): it repudiated the precepts of the Church and the means of sanctification (the Sacraments); it was also reproached with the sharing of women. Like the Joachimites, it accepted three ages: of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, awaiting this last one in which the free spirit was to reign and the salvation of all men and even of the demons was to be brought about! In 1410 Peter of Ailly, bishop of Cambrai, to whose diocese Brussels belonged, instituted a trial against the sect, which he completed in 1411; its acts are almost the only source for its history. G. di H. recanted and was condemned to three years' imprisonment, after which he was to be confined for life in a Carmelite convent outside the diocese. Concerning the fate of the other adherents of the sect, no information has been handed down to us.
Bibliography6 worksSources: the acts of the trial of 1411 were edited by: St. Baluzius, Miscellanea, II, Paris 1769, pp. 277-97; Mansi, II, pp. 288-93; C. Du P
BIBL.: Sources: the acts of the trial of 1411 were edited by: St. Baluzius, Miscellanea, II, Paris 1769, pp. 277-97; Mansi, II, pp. 288-93; C. Du Plessis d'Argentré, Collectio iudiciorum, I, II, Paris 1724, pp. 201-209; P. Frederico, Corpus documentorum Inquisitionis neerlandicae, I, Ghent 1889, pp. 267-79. Literature: A. Jundt, Histoire du panthéisme populaire au moyen âge, Paris 1875, p. 111 ff.; H. Ch. Lea, History of the Inquisition, II, New York 1888, p. 405 ff.; L. Oliger, De secta spiritus libertatis in Umbria, Rome 1943, p. 86.
Oliger, Livario. “Guglielmo di Hindernissen.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1257. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-hindernissen.
MLA
Oliger, Livario. “Guglielmo di Hindernissen.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1257. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-hindernissen.
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author = {Oliger, Livario},
title = {Guglielmo di Hindernissen},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1257},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guglielmo-di-hindernissen}
}
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