Hildebert of Touks (Hildebertus Turonexsis), in lli',>7 liisliop of Mans, and in 1125 archbishop of Tours, ■was born about 1055 at Lavardin. Though accused of licentiousness before his admission to the Church, he be- came one of its brightest ornaments for piety and learn- ing. During the time of his being bishop of Mans, he and his church suffered much from the contests of Wil- liam Ruf us and Helie, count of Mans; nor was he much more fortunate in his archbishopric, for he fell under the displeasure of Louis the Fat because he refused to dispose of his Church patronage as the king desired : the disagreement was at last settled, and Hildebert re- stored to favor. He wrote with great severity against the vices of the court of Rome. Hildebert had great "independence of mind, practical sense, and a degree of I taste which preserved him from falling into ti\e vain and i ;)uerile discussions of his contemporaries." His Trac- \
tafus Philosophicus and his Moralis Philosophia, T--hich are considered his best productions, are the first essays to- wards a popidar system of theology. He died A.D. 1 134 His epistles and sermons were quite numerous ; they are collected in the best edition of his works, Opei-a tarn ed- ita qiiam inediia, studio Beaugendre (Benedictine, Paris, 1708. fol.). Sec Mosheim, Ch. Hist. cent, xi, pt. ii, ch. ii, n. 74 ; Vita Hildeherti, prefixed to his works (com- plete list of his works to be found in Darling, Cyclop. Bibl. 1 vol.) ; Gallia Christiana, t. xiv ; Brockhaus, Con- versations-Lexihon, vii, 91 9 ; Bayle, Hist. Diet. p. 454 ; Ne- ander, Ch. Hist. ; Ncander, Hist. Christ. Dogmas, p. 533 ; Fuhrmann, llandwurterb. d. Christl. Religions mid Kirch- engesch. ii, 300 scj. ; Tenneman, Man. of Philos. p. 218.
Hildebrand. See Gregory VII.
Hildegarde or Hildegardis, abbess of St. Ru- pert's Jlount, on tlie Rhine, -was born at Bcickelhein, in Germ.any, A.D. 1098. She attracted much attention by her pretended revelations and visions, which were held to be supernatural, and obtained the comitenance of Bernard and others, and at last the approval of Euge- nius HI and the three succeeding popes, together with numerous prelates. She wrote Three Books of Revela- tions (Coloniaj, 1628):— Z,f/e of St. Robert .-—iXxrae Epis- tles, various Questions, and an Exjmsition of St. Bene- dict's Rule (all Colon. 1566). Most of them may also be found in Bibl. Max. Patrum, vol. xxiii. She clied A.D. 1180. — Neander, Ch. Hist, iv, 217, 586; Mosheim, Ch. Hist. cent, xii, pt. ii, ch. ii, n. 71 ; Baillet, Vies des Saints, Sept. 17; Brockhaus, Coiiversations-Lexikon, xii, 921.
Hildegonde, a female saint of the Romish Church, whose history is, in fact, a satire on Romish saintship. She is said to have been born at Nuitz, in the diocese of Cologne, towards the middle of the 12th century. Her father having made a vow to visit the Holy Land, she accompanied him, dressed in man's clothes, under the name of Joseph. Her father dying, however, on the way, he intrusted her to a man who, after conducting her to Jerusalem and back to Ptolemais, abandoned her in a state of destitution. After various vicissitudes, she came back to Cologne, entered the service of a canon, and finalh', in 1185, retired to a Cistercian convent near Heidelberg, where she died April 20, 1188. She was known to the other monks only as Brother Joseph, and her sex was not discovered until after her death. The Cistercians commemorate her on the 20th of April. Her life was written by Ctesarins of Heisterbach. See Bail- let, 1 7(?s des Saints, April 20; the BoUandists' Acta Sanct.; Richard ct Giraud, Biblioth. Sacrie ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generule, xxiv, G75.
Hildersham, Arthur, a pious and learned Puritan divine, was bom at Stechworth, Cambridgeshire, October 6, 1563, of an honorable famdy. He was brought up a papist, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge ; but while there he avowed himself a Protestant, and was, in consequence, cast off by his father. The earl of Hunt- ingdon, a distant kinsman, on hearing of the circum- stance, became his patron, and carried him through the university. In 1587 he was settled as preacher at Ash by de la Zouch, in Leicestershire, where (though often per- secuted, and forced to change his dwelling) he lived for the most part of forty-three j-ears, with great success in his ministry, beloved and revered by all classes. He suffered for conscience' sake in 1598, 1605, 1611, 1612, 1616, and 1630, being repeatedly silenced, deprived, cen- siu-ed,and fined to the amount of two thousand pounds by the Court of High Commission. He died March 4, 1631. His character was rich in Christian excellence. His published works consist of One Hundred and Eight Lectures on John iv (2d edit. Lond. 1632, fol.): — Eight Sermons on Psa. Ixxv (1632, fol.) : — One Hundred and Fifty-two Sermons on Psa. Ii (London, 1635, fol.) : — .4 Treatise on the Doctrine of the lord's Supper :—Ser- mons on Fasting, etc. (Lond. 1633, fol.). — Neal, Hist, of the Puritans, i, 329, 546 ; ISIiddleton, Biog. Evangel, iii, 25; Hook, Eccl. Biog. vi, 70.
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Hildesley, IMark, a clernjyman of the Church of England, was born in 1098 at Jliirson, Kent. Educated at Trinity College. Cambridge, he became, in 1735, after filling several minor ywsitions, rector of Hohvell, Bedford- shire, and in 1755 bishop of Sodor and Man. He died December 7, 1772. He was instrumental in the trans- lation of the Scriptures into the Manx language. See AVecden Butler, Life ; Hook, Kcd. Bioy. vi, 71.