BALDERIC

balderic, the name given to the author of a chronicle of the bishops of cambrai, written in the 11th century. this _gesta episcoporum cambracensium_ was for some time attributed to balderic, archbishop of noyon, but it now seems tolerably certain that the author was an anonymous canon of cambrai. the work is of considerable importance for the history of the north of france during the 11th century, and was first published in 1615. [v.03 p.0243] the best edition is in the _monumenta germaniae historica. scriptores_, bd. vii. (hanover and berlin, 1826-1892), which contains an introduction by l. c. bethmann. see _histoire litteraire de la france_, tome viii. (paris, 1865-1869).