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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 538 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAUDRY, or BALDERICH, OF BOURGUEIL (1046 or 1047-r Igo)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Dol, historian and poet, was See also:born at Meungsur-See also:Loire, where he passed his See also:early days . Educated at Meung and at See also:Angers, he entered the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of Bourgueil, and in 1079 became See also:abbot of this See also:place, but his See also:time was devoted to See also:literary pursuits rather than to his See also:official duties . Having failed to secure the bishopric of See also:Orleans in 1097, he became archbishop of Dol in 1107, and went to See also:Rome for his See also:pallium in tto8 . The bishopric of Dol had been raised to the See also:rank of an archbishopric during the loth See also:century by Nomenoe, See also:king of See also:Brittany, but this step had been objected to by the archbishops of See also:Tours . Consequently the position of the see was somewhat ambiguous, and See also:Baudry is referred to both as archbishop and as See also:bishop of Dol . He appears to have striven earnestly to do something for the See also:education of the ignorant inhabitants of Brittany but his efforts were not very successful, and he soon abandoned the task . In 1116 he attended the Lateran See also:council, and in 1119 the council of See also:Reims, after which he paid a visit of two years' duration to See also:England . Returning to See also:France he neglected the affairs of his See also:diocese, and passed. his time mainly at St See also:Samson-sur-Risle in See also:Normandy . He died on the 5th or 7th of See also:January 1130 . Baudry wrote a number of Latin poems of very indifferent quality . The most important of these, from the See also:historical point of view, havebeenpublished inthe Historiae Francorum Scriptores, tome iv., edited by A, See also:Duchesne (See also:Paris 1639-1649) . Baudry's See also:prose See also:works are more important .

The best known of these is his Historiae Hierosolyrnitanae, a See also:

history of the first crusade from 1095 to 1099 . This is a history in four books, the material for which was mainly See also:drawn from the See also:anonymous Gesta Francorum, but some valuable See also:information has been added by Baudry . It was very popular during the See also:middle ages, and was used by Ordericus Vitalis for his Historiae ecclesiasticae; by See also:William, archbishop of See also:Tyre, for his See also:Belli sacri historia; and by See also:Vincent of See also:Beauvais for his See also:Speculum historiale . The best edition is that by C . Thurot, which appears in the Recueil See also:des historiens des croisades, tome iv . (Paris, 1841-1887), Other works probably by Baudry are Epistola ad Fiscannenses monachos, a description of the monastery of See also:Fecamp; Vita Roberti de Arbrissello; Vita S . Hugonis archiepiscopi Rothomagensis; Translatio capitis Gemeticum et miracula S . Valentini martyris; Relatio de scuto et gladio, a history of the arms of St . See also:Michael; and Vita S . Samson/is Dolensis episcopi . Other writings which on very doubtful authority have been attributed to Baudry are Acta S . Valeriani mart yris Trenorchii; De visitatione infirmorum; Vita S .

Maglorii Dolensis episcopi et Vita S . Maclovii, Alectensis episcopi; De revelatione abbatum Fiscannensium; and Confirmatio bonorum monasterli S . Florentii . Many of these are published by J . P . See also:

Migne in the Patrologia See also:Latina, tomes 16o, 162 and 166 (Paris 1844) . See Histoire litteraire de la France, tome xi . (Paris, 1865—1869) ; H. von See also:Sybel, Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (See also:Leipzig, 1881) ; A . Thurot, " Etudes critiques sur See also:les historiens de la premiere croisade; Baudri de Bourgucil " in the Revue historique (Paris, his colleagues, See also:Dubois and See also:Marius See also:Jean See also:Mercie, co-operating with his See also:brother, Baudry the architect, erected a See also:monument to him in Paris (189o) . The statue of Baudry at La See also:Roche-sur-See also:Yonne (1897) is by See also:Gerome . See H . See also:Delaborde, See also:Notice sur la See also:vie et les ouvrages de Baudry (1886); Ch .

Ephrussi, Baudry, sa vie et son wuvre (1887) . (H .

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