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October 24, 1152
Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer
Jocelin of Soissons
Jocelin of Soissons was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.