Arnold of Brescia

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Arnold of Brescia was a 12th-century Italian cleric and reformer who led a radical movement against clerical wealth and papal temporal power, ultimately being condemned and executed for his challenges to Church authority.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic dissident
Christian cleric
Italian person
political activist
religious reformer
activeInCentury 12th century
advocated apostolic poverty for clergy
confiscation of Church property by secular authorities
renunciation of temporal power by the Church
associatedWith Roman Commune NERFINISHED
communal movement in 12th-century Rome
birthPlace Brescia NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath execution
chargedWith heresy
rebellion against papal authority
condemnedBy Catholic Church NERFINISHED
Pope Adrian IV NERFINISHED
Pope Eugene III NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Italy
deathPlace Rome
educatedAt school of Peter Abelard
era High Middle Ages
excommunicatedBy Catholic Church NERFINISHED
Pope Eugene III NERFINISHED
executedBy authorities of the Papal States NERFINISHED
influencedBy Peter Abelard NERFINISHED
legacy forerunner of later anti-clerical and reform movements
symbol of resistance to papal temporal power
mannerOfDeath execution by hanging
movement communal movement in Rome
religious reform
name Arnold of Brescia NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage Italian
notableFor leadership in the Roman communal republic
opposition to clerical wealth
opposition to papal temporal power
occupation canon regular
cleric
preacher
reformer
opposed papal temporal authority
secular rule of the pope over Rome
wealth of bishops and clergy
placeOfBirth Brescia NERFINISHED
Lombardy NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Rome
politicalPosition supporter of republican government in Rome
posthumousEvent ashes thrown into the Tiber River
body burned after execution
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
studentOf Peter Abelard NERFINISHED

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Pope Adrian IV conflictWith Arnold of Brescia