A footnote to Steven Botterill's query about Theodard, bishop of Maastricht
(?670) & the educated brigands of Bienwald: St. Landelin, aristocratic
founder of the abbeys of Lobbes, Crespin, Aulne & Wallers, was brought up &
educated by St. Aubert, bishop of Cambrai. But he became a brigand, perhaps
657-660, under the name Maurosus. Sometime around 665-670 he repented,
retired to Lobbes and began his monastic career. It's easy to imagine that
the well-educated Landelin could have quoted Horace to his victims, so why
not the robbers of Bienwald?
Recently Anne-Marie Helvetius has summarized Landelin's hagiography in her
"Abbayes, eveques et laiques: Une politique du pouvoir en Hainaut au moyen age"
Aline Hornaday
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