HILDEBERT OF LAVARDIN (c. arch bishop of Tours, was born at Lavardin, Near Vendome. He was probably a pupil of Berengarius of Tours, and became master of the school at Le Mans; in 1o91 he was made archdeacon and in 1096 bishop of Le Mans. While he was absent in Rome in IIII, Henry of Lausanne spread heretical doctrines and denounced the bishop. In 1125 he was translated unwillingly to the archbishopric of Tours, and there he came into conflict with the French king Louis VI. over ecclesiastical patronage and with the bishop of Dol about the authority of his see in Brittany. He presided over the synod of Nantes in 1127, and died at Tours about Dec. 18, 1133.
The writings of Hildebert which include letters, poems, a few sermons and lives of Hugo, abbot of Cluny and of St. Radegunda, were published in Paris.in 1708 and later in Migne's Patrol. Let.
See B. Haureau, Les Melanges poetiques d'Hildebert de Lavardin (1882) ; and Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits Latins de la Bibliotheque rationale (189o-93) ; P. de Deservillers, Un Eveque au XlIe siecle, Hildebert et son temps (1876) ; E. A. Freeman, The Reign of Rufus, vol. ii. (Oxford, 1882) ; L. Dieudonne, Hildebert de Lavardin (1898) ; F. Barth, Hildebert von Lavardin (Stuttgart, 1906) . See also Herzog's Realencyklopddie.