Hugues IV de Berzé

Hugues sent his poem with the jongleur Bernart d'Argentau, forming an important source of information about both poets.

Hugues is referred to as N'Ugo de Bersie in the Occitan razo that accompanies the poem in the chansonnier.

His most famous Old French work is La Bible au seigneur de Barzil, a poem of 1,029 octosyllables preaching the reform of the Church.

La Bible exemplifies "the beliefs of a pious layman with a considerable breadth of worldly experience".

In the late sixteenth century, Hugues's Bible furnished much historical evidence for the antiquarian works of Claude Fauchet.

Hugues as depicted in the Chansonnier d'Arras .
The castle at Berzé-le-Châtel, where Hugues lived and ruled.