Background
He was born at Provins to the French nobility, his father being Arnoul, Count of Champagne.
He was born at Provins to the French nobility, his father being Arnoul, Count of Champagne.
French: Saint Thibaut, Thibault, Thiébaut) (1033–1066) was a French hermit and saint. As a youth, Theobald admired the lives of hermits such as John the Baptist, Paul the First Hermit, Anthony the Abbot and Arsenius the Great. He would visit a local hermit named Burchard, who lived on an island in the Seine.
Theobald refused to get married or to begin a career either in the army or at court.
Theobald left home with a friend named Walter to become a hermit at Suxy in the County Chiny. They then traveled to Pettingen, where they worked as day laborers.
The two friends became pilgrims on the Way of Saint James and afterwards returned to the Diocese of Trier. They then made a pilgrimage to Rome and planned to go to the Holy Land by way of Venice.
However, Walter fell ill near Salanigo, near Vicenza, where they decided to settle.
The Bishop of Vicenza d eventually ordained Theobald a priest. Theobald died from an illness in which the skin of every limb was covered over in blotches and ulcers. Theobald died in Sossano on June 30, now his feast day, in Anno Domini 1066.
His relics were translated to a monastery nears Sens, and then to Auxerre, at the Priory of Saint-Thibault-en-Auxois, Côte-d"Or.
Theobald was canonized in 1073 by Pope Alexander World War II His cult is centered on Provins and Saint-Thibault-en-Auxois, where the Cluniac priory had some of his relics.