His last name was Valdès, or Waldo. * Unlike Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne, he was a layman, but he valued God’s Word so much that he divested himself of his material goods and arranged for portions of the Bible to be translated into a language commonly spoken in southeastern France.
وَقُرَابَةَ ٱلْفَتْرَةِ ٱلَّتِي أُحْرِقَ فِيهَا بْيَار دُو بْرُوِي حَيًّا لِأَنَّهُ تَجَرَّأَ عَلَى ٱنْتِقَادِ ٱلْكَنِيسَةِ ،‏ وُلِدَ شَخْصٌ كَانَ سَيَلْعَبُ فِي وَقْتٍ لَاحِقٍ دَوْرًا فَاعِلًا فِي نَشْرِ حَقِّ ٱلْكِتَابِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ ،‏ وَٱسْمُ عَائِلَتِهِ هُوَ ڤَلْدِيس أَوْ وَلْدُو .‏