Jean Charlier de Gerson, French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance, was born at the village of Gerson, in the bishopric of Reims in Champagne. His parents, Arnulph Charlier and Elizabeth de la Chardeniêre, "a second Monica," were pious peasants, and seven of their twelve children, four daughters and three sons, … Wikipedia
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