BALDERIC,  a French historian, a native of Orleans.  He was bishop of dole in Brittany.  He assisted at the council of Clermont, held upon the subject of the holy war, and wrote the history of that war in four books, in which are related the events of that fanatical expedition from its commencement to the year 1099, when Jerusalem was taken by Godfrey of Bouillon. (A Universal Biography, Platts, 1825)