Hélinand de Froidmont (c.1160-c.1230). Cistercian author chiefly remembered for his Vers de la mort (1194-7), a didactic poem concerning death and how to prepare for it. The formal influence of the so-called ‘Hélinand strophe’, a 12-line stanza of octosyllables, has been detected in later writers; Hélinand's poem was emulated by Robert le Clerc in the 13th c.
[David A. Trotter]
