ALBERIC OF REIMS. - Medieval scholastic, d. 1141. He was a disciple of Anselm of Laon, a fellow disciple and opponent of Abelard (Hist. calamitatum, coll. 4 and 9: PL. 178, 125 and 144); archdeacon and professor at the school of the cathedral of Reims, where he attracted a great number of students despite the obscurity of his teaching. Elected bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in 1126, Pope Honorius II refused, for unknown reasons, to confirm him, despite the intervention of St. Bernard in his favor (Epist. 15: PL. 182, 116). In 1136 he was elected archbishop of Bourges, encouraged and supported by Pope Innocent II (PL. 179, 278).

Of his works only one letter has survived, to Gualterus of Mortagne, on the essence of the marriage contract (E. Martène, U. Durand, Veterum Scriptorum... ampliss. collectio, II, Paris 1720, col. 838).

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: Gallia Christiana, II, Paris 1720, col. 49; IX, ibid. 1751, col. 878; PP. Maurini, Histoire littéraire de la France, XII, new ed., Paris 1896, pp. 72-76; John of Salisbury, Metalogica, ed. C. C. I. Webb, I, v, Oxford 1929, p. 18, 5.

Giovanni Müller

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Alberic of Reims

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