He only needed a great misfortune to topple him from the high position he held in the world of intellectual excellence, and it came.

Urged by kings and princes to meet the subtle St.Bernard in debate and crush him, he stood up in the presence of a royal and illustrious assemblage, and when his antagonist had finished he looked about him and stammered a commencement; but his courage failed him, the cunning of his tongue was gone: with his speech unspoken, he trembled and sat down, a disgraced and vanquished champion.
He died a nobody, and was buried at Cluny, A.D., 1144.

They removed his body to the Paraclete afterward, and when Heloise died, twenty years later, they buried her with him, in accordance with her last wish.

He died at the ripe age of 64, and she at 63.

After the bodies had remained entombed three hundred years, they were removed once more.