G. de la Brunetière

Brunetière, Guillaume de la, was the son of Anton de la Brunetiere, Lord du Plessis de Geste, and is the person referred to by Miller’s Singers and Songs, 1869, p. 143), and also sometimes in this Dictionary, as Guillaume du Flessis de Geste. He was educated at the University of Paris, and received from it the degree of D.D. For 16 years he was Vicar General at Paris prior to his consecration as Bishop of Saintes, on Nov. 30, 1677. He died May 2, 1702. His hymns are in the Paris Breviary, 1680; the Cluniac Breviary, 1686; the Paris Breviary, 1736; and other French Breviaries In the Paris Breviary of 1736 his hymns are signed, "G. Bp. S.," i.e. William, Bp. of Saintes. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)