Hugo OF NoxAXT, an English divine, was born at Nonant, in Normandy, in the first half of the 12th cen- tury, and was educated at Oxford University. About lIT.'i he became archdeacon of Lisieux, and, towards 1185, I)i.sliop of Coventry. He was the Romish legate to Eng- land during the administration of the bishops of Dur- ham and of Ely, in the absence of Kichard to the East, and his influence caused the removal of these bishops in 1191. Only three years later he was himself driven from his see, but he was permitted in 1195 to return agiin, on paying a fine of 5000 marks silver to the royal treasury. He died in April, 1198, during a voyage, or, more probably, wliile in exile a second time. The re- cital of the disgrace of the bishop of Ely Avas written down by Hugo, and has been published by Roger of Hoveden {Script. Rev. Ang. p. 702). It is a very violent pamphlet. — Hist. Litt. de la France, xv ; Hoefer, Xouv. Biof). Generale, xxv, 447.
Hugo DE Pagaxis. See Kxigiit Tesiplars.
Hugo OF PoiTiEus, a monk of Yezelay, of whose life but little is known, flourished in the 12th century. He A\Tote a history of the monastery of Yezelay, which has been published by D'Achery in his Spicileyium, iii. He is also supposed by some to be the author of the C/ironique des Comtes de N^eve7-s, inserted by Labbe in his Xotirelle Bihlinth'eque des Manuscrits. He died about 1 161. — Hist. Litt. de la France, vii, 668 sq. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Binr/r. Gen. xxv, 439.
Hugo OF Porto was born about the middle of the 11th century. He was archdeacon of Compostelle until the bishopric of Porto was established in 1114, when Hugo was elected to this see. He was a member of several Church councils in 1122-25. He died about 1125. Of his writings, the Uistorij of the Church of Compostelle, which has never been printed, is of especial
value for the history of his diocese Histoire Litt. de la
France, xi, 115 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxv, 435. (J.H.W.)
Hugo OF RiiEurs, son of count Herbert of Yerman- dois, floiu-ished in the 10th century. He was elected archbishop of Rheims when not quite five years old, and installed as head of the Church in that city by the power of his father; but only six years later Hugo was succeeded Iiy the monk ArtcM or Artaud. Ilerbcrt, dissatisfied with this appointment, made Artold prison- er, and called a synod at Soissons, which confirmed his son Hugo in the archbishopric. After Herbert's death Artold was liberated, and great contentions arose be- tween the two incumbents of the same see. In 947 a synod was held at Yerdun ; but this, as weU as another
held at Jlousson in 948, proved of no avail, as Hugo had secured for himself tlie intercession of the pope, who decreed that Hugo should hold the archbishopric. The friends of Artold finally resolved to hohl a national syn- od, when Hugo was deposed and Artold installed. See Schrijckh, Kirchewjesch. xxii, 252 sq.
Hugo OF RiREjioNT, a Trench theologian of the 12th century, of whoso life but little is known, was the author of Fpistola de Natura et Origine Anhme (in Martene, Anccdota, i, 368), which is based on the real and suiiposed works of Augustine. Of Aristotle's treat- ise On the iSoul lie seems to have been unaware. — Hoe- fer, Nouv. Bio'j. Gen. xxv, 447 ; Jlist. Lilt, de la France, xi, 113.
Hugo OF Saxcto Caro (Hugh of St. Cher), some- times also called Hugo pe S.Theodorico, an eminent French theologian, Avas born at St. Cher (whence his surname), a suburb of Yienne, France, about 1200, He studied theology and canon law at Paris, and in 1224 joined the Dominicans in the convent of St. Jacques (whence he is also called Hrco de St. Jacobo), and in 1227 was made " provincial" of this order in France. He also taught theology in Paris, and was connected with several scientific undertakings. He was one of the commissioners who examined and condemned the In- trodoctorius in Fvang. a:tern. of the Franciscan Gerhard, which developed the fanatical doctrines of Alb. Joachim of Flore (q. v.), and Avas active in the controversy of William de St. Amour with the mendicant orders. In 1245 he Avas made cardinal by Innocent lY, and died at Orvieto in 12G3. The reputation of Hugo, hoAvever, rests chiefly upon his Biblical studies and Avritings. In 123G he executed a revision of the text of the Latin Yulgate, an immense labor for that age. A copy of this work, preserved in the Nuremberg Library, has this ti- tle : "Liber de correctionibus novis super Biblia, ad scien- dum quce sit verior et communior litei'a, Reverendisirai patris et domini D. Hugonis, sacrte Rom. eccl. presby- teri cardiualis, sacrte theologia; professoris et de ordine prredicatorum." His principal published Avorks are Pos- tillcB in universa Biblia, a sort of brief commentary, pre- pared, hoAA'ever, without sufficient acquaintance Avitli the original languages of the Bible (Basil, 1487, etc.) : — Speculum ecclesice (Lyons, 1554). But his most imi)or- tant service to Biblical literature Avas his conception of the plan of a Concordance, v,'\\\c\\ he executed, Avith the aid of many monks of his order, in his Sacroi-um Bibl. Concordantice (latest ed. Avignon, 1786, 2 a-oIs. 4to). It is an alphabetical index of all the AA'ords in the Yulgate, and has formed the model of all Concordances to the Bible. It had the effect also of bringing the division into chapters and \-erses into general use. See Quetif et Echard, Scr-iptores ordinis priedicatorum, i, 194 sq. ; Hist. Litter, de la France, xix, 38 sq. ; Richard Simon, Nouvelles observations sur le texte et les versions du A\ Test, ii, 128; Herzog, Real-Enojklop. vol. vi ; Iloefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxv, 450 ; Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop, ii, 340.