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According to his memoirs, the labour nearly cost him and his mother their lives, as Guibert turned around in the womb.
Guibert's family made an offering to a shrine of the Virgin Mary, and promised that if Guibert survived, he would be dedicated to a clerical life.
In his memoirs, Guibert views his death as a type of blessing, stating that if his father had survived, he likely would have forced Guibert to become a knight, thus breaking the oath to the Virgin Mary to dedicate Guibert to the church.
Guibert writes so much about his mother, and in such detail, that some scholars, such as Archambault, have suggested that he may have had an Oedipus complex.
She assumed control of his education, isolated him from his peers and hired him a private tutor, from the ages of six to twelve.
Guibert remembers the tutor as brutally exacting, and incompetent ; yet nevertheless Guibert and his tutor developed a strong bond.
Around the age of twelve, his mother retired to an abbey near Saint-Germer-de-Fly ( or Flay ), and Guibert soon followed.
Entering the Order at St. Germer, he studied with great zeal, devoting himself at first to the secular poets Ovid and Virgil — an experience which left its imprint on his works.
He later changed his focus to theology, through the influence of Anselm of Bec, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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