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a French cardinal and theologian, was born in Champagne, entered the Benedictine order, became prior of St. Nicolas of Rheims, and in 1128 was elected abbot of St. Jean de Laon. Pope Innocent II called him to Rome in 1130, and made him bishop of Ostia and cardinal. He died in 1138, leaving several treatises printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum (Paris, 1644), 1:565. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.