He was born during the latter part of the 12th century. Thirty-seven of his hymns were published in the "Elucidatorium Ecclesiasticum" of Clichtoveus, a Catholic theologian of the 16th century.
The remaining seventy hymns were preserved in the Abbey of Saint Victor until its dissolution during the French Revolution. They were then transferred to the Bibliothèque Nationale, where they were discovered by Léon Gautier, who edited the first complete edition of them (Paris, 1858).