biography
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Berengar of Tours
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also known as Berengarius of Tours
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pronunciation:
[berãgah(r), toor]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.999–1088)
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| biography:
| Scholastic theologian, born probably in Tours, WC France. He studied at Chartres under Fulbert, in 1031 was appointed preceptor of the cathedral school in Tours, and about 1040 archdeacon of Angers. An opponent of the doctrine of transubstantiation, he was excommunicated by Pope Leo IX in 1050, and imprisoned by Henri I in the same year. He made a series of partial retractions, the last in 1080, and retired to the island of St Cosme, in the Loire near Tours. |
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