Geoffroi Babion

Geoffroi Babion a French ecclesiastical writer, lived at the commencement of the 12th century. He was one of the most celebrated scholastics, or master professors, of the school of Angers. He succeeded in this office Marbode, who was ordained bishop of Rennes hi 1096. Little is known of his life, excepting that under his direction the school of Angers flourished. and that he still lived in 1110. There is no foundation for the belief of Pits, that Geoffroi was English. There is. a commentary preserved in the abbey of Citeaux with this inscription, Gaufridi Babuini super Matthaeum. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.