UGO di FLEURY. - Little is known of the life of this monk, who became celebrated for his extensive learning. D. after 1118.
U. of Ste Marie, a Benedictine at Fleury-sur-Loire, whence his sobriquet, left several works marked by a precise style and sound erudition. In the Tractatus de regia potestate et sacerdotali dignitate (MGH, Lib. de lite, II, p. 465 sqq.; PL 163, 930-76), he attempts to calm the disputes then dividing the two powers; in the Chronicon, extending from Abraham to Charles the Bald, he avoids producing a mere compilation and attempts instead an essay in synthesis; in the Vita s. Sacerdotis (PL 163, 979-1004), he offers a notable depiction of the life of the bishop of Limoges. He also left an Epistola dedicatoria to the Empress Matilda, which was to appear at the beginning of a history from Louis the Pious to Louis the Fat (840-1108). Duchesne attributes to him Le livre des Miracles de St Benoît and a Francorum historia brevis et succincta from 842 to 1108 (MGH, Script., IX, pp. 376-95).