Burchard (4)

was a French ascetic theologian. Under the direction of St. Bernard he went to Clairvaux. In 1136 he was made abbot of Balerno. in Burgundy, and was finally transferred to the abbey of Bellevaux, where he died, April 19, 1162. He wrote a letter to Nicolas, monk of Clairvaux, which was published in the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum (xxi, 523), also an appendix to the Life of St. Bernard, in the edition given by Mabillon (vol. ii). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.