The Gottesfreunde were a loose network of men and women, influenced by Eckhart, Tauler and Suso, who sought an inner life of union with God in a time of plague and schism. Their writings, some anonymous, include the Theologia Deutsch, later admired by Luther.
Friends of God
A fourteenth-century movement of devout clergy and laity in the Rhineland and Switzerland.
Also: Gottesfreunde