Hugh of Langres

:"This article is not about Hugh-Rainard of Tonnerre, bishop of Langres from 1065 to 1084"

Hugh of Langres [Hugo de Breteuil.] (died 1050) was bishop of Langres.

As a theologian, he wrote a work, "De corpore et sanguine Christi", against Berengar of Tours. [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/080/000094795/ Berengar of Tours ] ] [ [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc02.html?term=Berengar%20of%20Tours New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers | Christian Classics Ethereal Library ] ] He had met Berengar and discussed his views at length. [Brian Stock, "The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation" (1987), p. 287.]

At the Council of Rheims (1049) he was accused of a range of crimes. One defender, Hugh of Besançon, rose but didn’t speak. Another, Halinard of Lyon, mitigated the charges, saying Hugh of Langres was guilty of simony and extortion, but not the other matters. Hugh fled the Council, was deposed and excommunicated, went to Rome in 1050 to confess, and died on his way back to France. [Kathleen G. Cushing, "Reform and the Papacy in the Eleventh Century: Spirituality and Social Change" (2005), p. 127-8.] [ Ian Robinson (translator), "The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century: Lives of Pope Leo IX and Gregory VII" (2004), pp. 138-9.]

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