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> > It has also been touted that their son Astrolabe later became a cleric > but the evidence is fairly thin and there is no reason to suspect that > Abelard had a hand in his choice. > > But Heloise certainly did. She wrote to Peter the Venerable asking him to find a prebend for Astralabe, so there is no doubt that he was a priest. Note the spelling, by the way. I suggested in what George Ferzoco has called "the coolest article of 1995" that he got his name from an anagram - "Astralabius, Puer Dei" (as he would have been called at his baptism) is an anagram of "Petrus Abaelardus II". Doctor Elasticus. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%