Gottschalk Of Orbais

Gottschalk Of Orbais (born c. 803, Saxony [Germany]—died c. 868, Hautvillers, near Reims, France) was a monk, poet, and theologian whose teachings on predestination shook the Roman Catholic church in the 9th century. Of noble birth, Gottschalk was an oblate (i.e., a child dedicated to monastic life by its parents) in the Benedictine abbey of Fulda. Over the objection of his abbot and eventual lifelong enemy, Rabanus Maurus, Gottschalk requested release from his monastic obligations;...