Bibauc (or Bibault; Lat Bibaucius) Guillaume

Bibauc (Or Bibault; Lat. Bibaucius) Guillaume a Flemish preacher, thirty-fifth general of the Carthusians, was born at Tiel in the Low Countries, and lived early in the 16th century. He was educated at Louvain, and was induced by the impression made upon him by a thunder-storm, to join the Carthusians, which he did in 1500, at Vallis Regina, near Ghent. In 1521 he was made general of his order. He died July 24, 1535. He wrote, Orationes et Concones Capitulares (edited by Jesse Hess in 1539, and reprinted in 1610 and 1634). See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.