Guillaume Alexis (precise birth and death dates unknown) was a French Benedictine monk and poet of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, nicknamed the "Good Monk".
His abbey was that at Lire (La Vieille-Lyre), in the diocese of Évreux, He became prior of Bussy, in Perche.
In 1486 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem[1] and died there, a victim of Ottoman persecution.
Guillaume Alexis was a poet of a very live style, who literary critics rank with the successors of François Villon: Jean de La Fontaine admired his poetry.
[1] Michel-André Bossy, Woman's Plain Talk in Le Débat de l'omme et de la femme by Guillaume Alexis.