(Gilbert of Hoyt)[1] was a twelfth-century abbot of Swineshead Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in Lincolnshire, between about 1147 and his death in 1172.
Gilbert apparently went to Swineshead to help the community adopt Cistercian usages.
(Sermones in Canticum Salomonis) Sometime after Bernard of Clairvaux died in 1153, Gilbert was asked to continue Bernard's incomplete series of 86 sermons on the biblical Song of Songs.
Gilbert wrote 47 sermons before he died in 1172, probably at the French Cistercian monastery of Larrivour.
The sermons were fairly well-known, surviving in about fifty manuscripts.