The Burning of the Amalricians
Gary W. Dickson
On 20 November 1210, before a large crowd of spectators which had flocked to the market-place Les Champeaux outside Saint-Honoré Gate in Paris, heretical Amalricians were burnt at stake. Fire that day consumed ten men, whom nine certainly laicised priests, deacons and sub-deacons. Six days earlier, nearby church St Honorius, they been stripped their clerical status handed over for execution royal officials rex chrislianissimus , Philip Augustus. Indeed, from time some three months beforehand Master Ralph Namur, discoverer existence pseudo-convert beliefs, was instructed by his superiors infiltrate sect – an act ecclesiastical espionage eventually delivered flames highly placed counsellor, Hospitaller Brother Guerin, consulted immediately. For this matter urgency, not just Church.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History