Guillaume de Champeaux (c. 1070 – 1121), also known as William of Champeaux (English) or Guglielmus de Campellis Latin), was a French philosopher and theologian. Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... Events Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England. ... Events Concordat of Worms condemns Pierre Abélards writings on the Holy Trinity. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ...

He was born at Champeaux near Melun. After studying under Anselm of Laon and Roscellinus, he taught in the school of the cathedral of Notre-Dame, of which he was made canon in 1103. Among his pupils was Pierre Abélard. In 1108 he retired into the abbey of St Victor, where he resumed his lectures. He afterwards became bishop of Châlons-en-Champagne, and took part in the dispute concerning investitures as a supporter of Pope Callixtus II, whom he represented at the conference of Mousson. There are things that have the name Champeaux in France: // Person William of Champeaux Places Champeaux, in the Ille-et-Vilaine département Champeaux, in the Manche département Champeaux, in the Seine-et-Marne département Related Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier, in the Dordogne département Champeaux-sur... Melun is a French city and commune on the river Seine, about 50 km south-southeast of Paris. ... Anselm of Laon (died 1117) was a French theologian. ... Roscellinus (~1050 - ~1122), often called the founder of Nominalism (see Scholasticism), was born at Compigne (Compendium). ... This article is about the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. ... Events April 27 - Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, goes into exile after falling out with Henry I of England Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy Bohemund I of Antioch is released from imprisonment among the Turks The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see within the Roman Catholic Church Births February... Abaelardus and Heloïse surprised by Master Fulbert, by Romanticist painter Jean Vignaud (1819) Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher. ... Events May - Battle of Ucles Consecration of Chichester cathedral Saint Magnus becomes the first earl of Orkney In Pistoia, Italy, Cathedral of San Zeno burned to the ground. ... Châlons-en-Champagne is a city and commune in France. ... The Investiture Controversy was the most significant conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe. ... Calixtus II (or Callistus II), born Guido of Vienne (died December 13, 1124), the son of William I, Count of Burgundy (1057–87), was elected Pope on February 2, 1119, after the death of Pope Gelasius II (1118–19). ...

His only printed works are a fragment on the Eucharist (inserted by Jean Mabillon in his edition of the works of St Bernard), and the Moralia A brevi ala and De Origine Animae (in E. Martnes Thesaurus novus Anecdotorum, 1717, vol. 5). In the last of these he maintains that children who die unbaptized must be lost, the pure soul being defiled by the grossness of the body, and declares that God's will is not to be questioned. He upholds the theory of Creationism (that a soul is specially created for each human being). Ravaisson-Mollien has discovered a number of fragments by him, among which the most important is the De Essentia Dei et de Substantia Dei; a Liber Sententiarum, consisting of discussions on ethics and Scriptural interpretation, is also ascribed to Champeaux. The Eucharist or Communion or The Lords Supper, is the rite that Christians perform in fulfillment of Jesus instruction, recorded in the New Testament, to do in memory of him what he did at his Last Supper. ... Jean Mabillon (November 23, 1632-December 27, 1707) was a Benedictine monk and scholar, considered the founder of palaeography and diplomatics. ... Bernard of Clairvaux, in a medieval illuminated manuscript. ...

He is considered the founder of extreme realism, a philosophy which held that universals exist independently of both the human mind and particular objects (a philosphy that followed on from Platonic realism). Philosophical realism refers to various philosophically unrelated positions, in some cases diametrically opposed ones, which are termed realism. ... Universals (used as a noun) are either properties, relations, or types, but not classes. ... Platonic realism is a metaphysical theory of universals, maintaining that universals exist in a realm that is separate from space and time. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.