Guy of Bazoches[1] (before 1146–1203) was a French cleric of the Champagne region, and writer in Latin.[2] He was a canon of Châlons-sur-Marne.
He was a chronicler, of the Third Crusade in particular, in which he had taken part in the retinue of Henry II of Champagne, a poet, and a letter writer.
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- Georg Heinrich Pertz, Die Briefe des Canonicus Guido von Bazoches, Cantors zu Chalons im zwölften Jahrhundert, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1890, I. pp. 161–179
- Wilhelm Wattenbach, Aus den Briefen des Guidos von Bazoches, Neues Archiv 16 (1890), 67-113,
- Wilhelm Wattenbach, Die Apologie des Guido von Bazoches. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1893, I. pp. 395–420
- John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, Speculum, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), pp. 551–591
- Herbert Adolfsson, editor (1969), Liber epistularum Guidonis de Basochis
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