
She is known for exerting critical intellectual influence upon his work and posing many challenging questions to him such as those in the Problemata Heloissae. She is famous in history and popular culture for her love affair and correspondence with the leading medieval logician and theologian Peter Abelard, who became her colleague, collaborator and husband. She achieved approximately the level and political power of a bishop in 1147 when she was granted the rank of prelate nullius. Héloïse was a renowned "woman of letters" and philosopher of love and friendship, as well as an eventual high-ranking abbess in the Catholic Church. 1100–01? – –64?), variously Héloïse d' Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess. Peter Abelard, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Simone Weil
