Baudri de Bourgueil

Baudri de Bourgueil (c.1045–1130), also known as Baldric of Dol, was a French Benedictine abbot and later archbishop of Dol who earned lasting fame as a Latin poet and historian. After rising at the abbey of Bourgueil in the Loire region, he wrote elegant verse for aristocratic patrons and produced one of the major literary retellings of the First Crusade, the Historia Ierosolimitana, composed around 1105 and shaped from earlier crusade narratives such as the Gesta Francorum.