Henry of Marcy

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Henry of Marcy, or Henry de Marsiac,^[1] (c. 1136 – 1 January 1189)^[2] was a Cistercian abbot, first of Hautecombe in Savoy (1160–1177), and then of Clairvaux, from 1177 until 1179.^[3] He was created Cardinal Bishop of Albano by Pope Alexander III at the Third Lateran Council in 1179.^[4]

Henry was an important figure in the fight against the late-12th-century movements of Catharism and Waldensianism and was prominent at the Third Lateran Council.^[5] He supported the use of force to suppress heresy and a strong alliance between secular and ecclesiastic authority in the use of force.