Fulbert of Chartres

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Saint Fulbert of Chartres
Born ~960
Died April 10, 1028
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast April 10
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Fulbert of Chartres (born perhaps around 960, died April 10, 1028) was a French scholar, teacher, and bishop of Chartres (1006-1028). He is regarded as a saint, with his feast day April 10.

Fulbert was a leading scholar and political figure in northern France in the first decades of the 11th century. In particular, his opinions on Canon law and, to a lesser extent, Roman law were widely respected. He had political dealings with King Robert II of France, Odo II, Count of Blois-Chartres, and Duke William V of Aquitaine.

His writings, especially his letters, provide an important source for eleventh-century French history. They are edited by Frederick Behrends in The Letters and Poems of Fulbert of Chartres (Oxford 1976). His hymnography includes the Vespers hymn for Easter, Chorus novae Hierusalem.

Among his students was Berengar of Tours, whose views on the Eucharist were denounced as heretical.

In 1020, the cathedral of Chartres was badly damaged in a fire, and Fulbert rebuilt it, although the extent of his work is unclear. Part of the current crypt of the cathedral probably dates to his episcopate.

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