Background
Glaber was born in 985 in Burgundy.
Glaber was born in 985 in Burgundy.
Later he joined the monastery of Saint Benignus near Dijon where he met reforming Piedmontese cleric William of Volpiano in about 1010. In 1031, he moved to the Abbey of Cluny, headed by Abbot Odilon de Mercœur, and finally to the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre in 1039, where he remained until his death.