PAUL of BERNRIED. – Augustinian canon, died c. 1146. He wrote a Vita Gregorii VII (1128), the Vita Herlucae (1130) and several private letters to the clergy of Milan. Around 1100 he was a canon of Regensburg, adhered to the strict Gregorian party and, after long persecutions, was forced to flee with his pupil Gebhard in 1121.
Ordained priest in 1117, he deepened his ties with the Augustinian Canons, often visiting Sigebot of Rottenbuch and the recluse Herluka at Epfach. He entered the monastery of Bernried, founded in 1122, and went to Rome to obtain the bull of confirmation, stopping in Milan on his return. In 1126, under Bishop Cuno, he was at Regensburg; finally he retired to the monastery of the Augustinian Canons of St. Mang, founded by Gebhard in Stadtamhof. P. was for a time a pluralist. He strove to propagate the Ambrosian liturgy. His identity with Paulus Judaeus, author of a Vita Erhardi, is not clear.