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FRANCIS LAMBERT (c 1486-153o)

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FRANCIS See also:LAMBERT (c 1486-153o)  , See also:Protestant reformer, was the son of a papal See also:official at See also:Avignon, where he was See also:born between 1485 and 1487 . At the See also:age of 15 he entered the Franciscan monastery at Avignon, and after 1517 he was an itinerant preacher, travelling through See also:France, See also:Italy and Switzer-See also:land . His study of the Scriptures shook his faith in See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:theology, and by 1522 he had abandoned his See also:order, and became known to the leaders of the See also:Reformation in Switzer-land and See also:Germany . He did not, however, identify himself either with Zwinglianism or Lutheranism; he disputed with See also:Zwingli at See also:Zurich in 1522, and then made his way to See also:Eisenach and See also:Wittenberg, where he married in 1523 . He returned to See also:Strassburg in 1524, being anxious to spread the doctrines of the Reformation among the See also:French-speaking See also:population of the neighbourhood . By the Germans he was distrusted, and in 1526 his activities were prohibited by the See also:city of Strassburg . He was, however, befriended by See also:Jacob See also:Sturm, who recommended him to the Landgraf See also:Philip of See also:Hesse, the most liberal of the See also:German reforming princes . With Philip's encouragement he drafted that See also:scheme of ecclesiastical reform for which he is famous . Its basis was essentially democratic and congregational, though it provided for the See also:government of the whole See also:church by means of a See also:synod . Pastors were to be elected by the See also:congregation, and the whole See also:system of See also:canon-See also:law was repudiated . This scheme was submitted by Philip to a synod at Homburg; but See also:Luther intervened and persuaded the Landgraf to abandon it . It was far too democratic to commend itself to the See also:Lutherans, who had by this See also:time See also:bound the Lutheran cause to the support of princes rather than to that of the See also:people .

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Lambert, who was appointed See also:professor and See also:head of the theological See also:faculty in the Landgraf's new university of See also:Marburg . See also:Patrick See also:Hamilton (q.v.), the Scottish See also:martyr, was one of his pupils; and it was at Lambert's instigation that Hamilton composed his Loci communes, or Patrick's Pleas as they were popularly called in See also:Scotland . Lambert was also one of the divines who took See also:part in the See also:great See also:conference of Marburg in 1529; he had See also:long wavered between the Lutheran and the Zwinglian view of the See also:Lord's Supper, but at this conference he definitely adopted the Zwinglian view . He died of the See also:plague on the 18th of See also:April 153o, and was buried at Marburg . A See also:catalogue of Lambert's writings is given in Haag's La France protestante . See also lives of Lambert by Baum (Strassburg, 184o); F . W . Hessencamp (See also:Elberfeld, 186o), Stieve (See also:Breslau, 1867) and See also:Louis Ruffet (See also:Paris, 1873); Lorimer, See also:Life of Patrick Hamilton (1857); A . L . See also:Richter, See also:Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen See also:des 16 . Jahrh . (See also:Weimar, 1846) ; Hessencamp, Hessische Kirchenordnungen See also:im Zeitalter der Reformation; Philip of Hesse's See also:Correspondence with See also:Bucer, ed .

M . See also:

Lenz; See also:Lindsay, Hist . Reformation; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie . (A . F .

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