GUIBERT OF GEMBLOUX. - Hagiographer and Benedictine abbot, b. ca. 1125, d. after 1213. A monk at Gembloux and at Tours, ca. 1187 he became abbot of Florennes and in 1194 of Gembloux, from which he retired in 1204.

He celebrated the glories of St. Martin of Tours in various works: Vita s. Martini (partial ed. in A. Pitra, Analecta sacra, VIII, Montecassino 1881, pp. 584-91); a prolix rhythmic composition; De laudibus s. Martini opuscola duo (ibid., pp. 582-600); Quatuor epistulae de cultu s. Martini apud Turonenses (ed. in Analecta Bollandiana, 3 [1884], pp. 217-57); Ep. de s. Martino (ed. H. Delehaye, ibid., 7 [1888], pp. 256-382, with an erudite introduction).

An admirer of St. Hildegard, he was her guest (1177-79) and maintained an epistolary correspondence with her (PL 211, 1287-1312). He also wrote the history of the fire of the abbey of Gembloux (ibid., 160, 657-62) and an Epistola ad Idam abbatissam Montis S. Roberti (ed. of the Bollandists, Catalogus codicum hagiograf. Biblioth. regiae Bruxellensis, I, Brussels 1886, pp. 557-61).

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BIBL.: Hurter, II, coll. 341-42; H. Delehaye, Guibert de Gembloux, in Revue des quest. hist., 46 (1889), pp. 5-90; A. Manser, Wibert von G., in LThK, X, col. 856; I. de Ghellinck, L'essor de la littérature latine au XIIe siècle, Brussels-Paris 1946, pp. 197-199.

Antonio Piolanti

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Guibert of Gembloux

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