Adelmann ( la, Adelmannus Leodiensis, it, Adelmanno di Liegi, french: Adelman de Liège, nl, Adelman van Luik, german: Adelmann von Lüttich; ?, - c. 1061,

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

) was the bishop of Brescia, in Northern Italy, during the eleventh century. Adelmann seems to have become bishop there in 1050, and to have taken an active share in the church-reform movement of the period, especially against the clerical abuses of

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and

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. Of unknown parentage and nationality, he was educated at the famous

School of Chartres During the High Middle Ages, the Chartres Cathedral established the cathedral School of Chartres, an important center of French scholarship located in Chartres. It developed and reached its apex during the transitional period of the 11th and 12th ...

, in France, founded by Fulbert, and was considered one of his favourite scholars. Among his fellow students was

Berengarius Berengar of Tours (died 6 January 1088), in Latin Berengarius Turonensis, was an 11th-century French people, French Christianity, Christian theologian and archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set a ...

, to whom, at a later period, he addressed two letters. The second (incomplete) letter is a valuable dogmatic exposition of the teaching of the Church on the Eucharist;Epist. de Eucharistiae Sacramento. the

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editors of the ''

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'' call it "one of the finest literary documents of the period." It breathes a tender affection for Berengarius, the friend of the writer's youth.

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called him "barbarus, imperitus, et sophista."

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* Year of birth unknown 1061 deaths 11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Bishops of Brescia Prince-Bishopric of Liège clergy 11th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire {{Belgium-bio-stub