BAUDRY, or BALDERICH, OF BOURGUEIL (1046 or Io47-I130), archbishop of Dol, historian and poet, was born at Meung-sur-Loire. He became abbot of Bourgueil in Io79, and archbishop of Dol in 1IO7.
The most important of his Latin poems, from the historical point of view, have been published in the Historiae Francorum Scriptores, tome iv., edited by A. Duchesne (Paris His Historiae Hierosolymitanae, a history of the first crusade from 1095 to Io99, is drawn mainly from the anonymous Gesta Francorum, but some valuable information has been added by Baudry. It was very popular during the middle ages, and was used by Ordericus Vitalis for his Historiae ecclesiasticae; by William, archbishop of Tyre, for his Belli sacri historia; and by Vincent of Beauvais for his Speculum historiale. The best edition is that by C. Thurot, which appears in the Recueil des historiens des croisades, tome iv. (Paris, 1841-87). Many other works attributed to Baudry are published by J. P. Migne in the Patro logia Latina, tomes 16o, 162, and 166 (Paris, See Histoire litteraire de la France, tome xi. (1865-69) ; H. von Sybel, Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (Leipzig, 1881) ; C. Thurot, "ttudes critiques sur les historiens de la premiere croisade ; Baudri de Bourgueil" in the Revue historique (1876).