Hildebert de Lavardin

French ecclesiastic, hagiographer and theologian

Hildebert de Lavardin
Hildebert of Lavardin (c. 1055 – 18 December 1133) was a French ecclesiastic, hagiographer and theologian. From 1096–97 he was bishop of Le Mans, then from 1125 until his death archbishop of Tours. Life. Hildebert was born of poor parents at Lavardin, near Vendôme, and was intended for the church. He was probably a pupil of Berengar of Tours, and became master (scholasticus) of the school at Le Mans; in 1091 he was made archdeacon and in 1096 or 1097 bishop of Le Mans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebert_of_Lavardin

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