ANSELM, of Laon (died 1117), French theologian, was born of very humble parents at Laon before the middle of the 11th century. He is said to have studied under St. Anselm at Bec. About 2076 he taught with great success at Paris, where, as the associate of William of Champeaux, he upheld the realistic side of the scholastic controversy. Later he removed to Laon, where his school for theology and exegetics became famous. His great est work, an interlinear gloss on the Scriptures, was one of the great authorities of the middle ages. Other commentaries appar ently by him have been ascribed to various writers, principally to the great Anselm. A list of them, with notice of Anselm's life, is contained in the Histoire litteraire de la France, x. 170-89.