Helinand of Perseigne was a Cistercian monk and writer. He served as the procurator of Perseigne Abbey during the abbacy of Adam ().Barthélemy Hauréau, Histoire Littéraire du Maine, Tome Sixième (Dumoulin, 1873), pp. 102–103. He wrote a commentary on the Book of Revelation, mentioned by John of Wales around 1280, but it is now lost.Alain Boureau (2014), "Albert le Grand, commentateur de lApocalypse", Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 61(1): 43–57. Some preserved glosses on the Book of Exodus are also attributed to him.
Réjane Molina has proposed that Helinand of Froidmont may have spent time at Perseigne before moving to Froidmont, suggesting that the two authors were, in fact, the same person.Beverly M. Kienzle (1997), "Hélinand de Froidmont et la prédication cistercienne dans le Midi (1145–1229)", Cahiers de Fanjeaux 32: 37–67, citing Molina (1987), "Helinand de Froidmont, Helinand de Perseigne, et la littérature de Graal", in Les Cahiers de l'Abbaye de St. Arnount 2: 57–63.
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