Isaac of Stella

Isaac of Stella, also referred to as Isaac de l'Etoile, (c. 1100, in England – c. 1170s, Étoile, Poitiers, Poitou, France) was a monk, theologian and philosopher.

About 1140 he abandoned the schools and joined the Order of Cistercians, during the reforms of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, probably at Pontigny. In 1147 he became abbot of the small monastery of Stella, outside Poitiers. At some time in his later career, most likely in 1167, he was exiled to a remote monastery on the Atlantic Isle of Re, probably because of his support for Archbishop Thomas Becket. He later returned to Stella. It is known he lived at Stella on into the 1170s because in one of his sermons he refers to meeting 'Saint' Bernard - and Bernard was only canonised in 1174.