Jocelin of Soissons[1] (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard.
[4] In the papal politics of the late 1120s and 1130s, Suger counted Jocelin, at Soissons from 1126, as a supporter of Pope Innocent II against antipope Anacletus II, along with other bishops of northern France.
[9][10] He favoured the Knights Templars, having participated in the Council of Troyes that gave them full standing.
[11] He was present at the 1146 Council of Arras, a probable occasion for the planning of the Second Crusade.
[2] The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury attributed to him the view that universals exist only in the collection, not the individuals.