Alberich of Reims

Alberich of Reims (c. 1085 – 1141) was a scholar who studied under Anselm of Laon and later became an opponent of Peter Abelard.

[1] He was originally from Reims, but moved to nearby Laon to study under Anselm and his brother Ralph.

He was reluctantly promoted by the Pope to be Archbishop of Bourges in 1136 and served there until his death in 1141.

[2] Alberich along with another student of Anselm's, Lotulf of Lombardy, instigated proceedings against Peter Abelard, charging him with the heresy of Sabellius in a provincial synod held at Soissons in 1121.

[3] Alberich was a follower of the longstanding approach of judging theological arguments by the historical authority or who had made them.