Henricus Batenus (Mechliniensis)[N 1] (24 March 1246 in Mechelen – after 1310 in Tongerloo) was a Brabantian philosopher, theologian, astronomer, astrologer, poet, and musician.
He was a pupil of Thomas Aquinas, he became a canon and cantor of the Cathedral of Saint-Lambert, Liège before 1289.
As astronomer, he made astrolabes, and wrote Magistralis compositio astrolabii, dedicated to his friend William of Moerbeke.
[1] While in Rome in 1292, he wrote commentaries on the astrological works of Abraham ibn Ezra and Albumasar.
He became tutor to Guy de Hainaut, brother of Count Jean d'Avesnes, for whom he wrote, between 1285 and 1305, a Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium (On the Unity of Natural).