Biography

William was born at abbey of St Victor.

He was the friend of Bernard of Clairvaux, having helped Bernard recuperate from ill-health; later he motivated Bernard to write some of his important works including the Apologia, which was dedicated to William.

William left St Victor in 1113 when he became conference of Mousson.Grande charte champenoise Great Champagne Chart which defined the agricultural and viticultural possessions of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre-aux-Monts, thus giving rise to the modern-day Champagne wine region. After relinquishing his Benedictine Abbacy, he moved to a Cistercian monastery in Rheims, where he also composed a number of spiritual books, such(a) as his Vita Prima, which were widely read in monastic circles.

His surviving workings are a fragment on the Eucharist, inserted by Jean Mabillon in his edition of the works of St Bernard, and the Moralia A brevi ala and De Origine Animae. In the last of these he supports that children who die unbaptized must be lost, the pure soul being defiled by the grossness of the body, and declares that God's will is non to be questioned. He upholds the idea of Creationism i.e., that a soul is specially created for each human being. Ravaisson-Mollien has discovered a number of fragments by him, among which the near important is the De Essentia Dei et de Substantia Dei; a Liber Sententiarum, consisting of discussions on ethics and scriptural interpretation, is also ascribed to Champeaux.

He is considered the founder of an early report of moderate realism, a philosophy which held that ]