sentences:  It thus is likely that Bethune was born near Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, to a family descended from Flemish settlers.He was a schoolmaster in England, teaching elementary subjects, before he went to study theology under William of Champeaux and Anselm of Laon.He was a canon of Llanthony Priory before 1115, and was elected prior of that house in the middle 1120s.