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Geoffroi de Peronne

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a French theologian of the 12th century, was one of the twenty-nine persons commendable for their birth and knowledge, whom Bernard, on his voyage to Flanders about 1146, decided to embrace the religious life at Clairvaux. Geoffroi became, later, prior of this abbey, and refused the bishopric of Tournay. He still lived in 1171. For mention of his works, see Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.