Burchard (1)

Burchard (1)

a German prelate, was a monk of Lobe, who became,-in 996, bishop of Worms. He attended the Council of Selingenstadt in 1022. For many years he dwelt in a cell about two miles from Worms, where, with the assistance of Olbertus of Gemblours, he compiled his great work, the Decretorum Volumen, a collection of canons, decretals, etc. (Cologne, 1548, fol.; Paris, 1549, 8vo).