HUBERD is the Friar on the pilgrimage, Gen Prol 208-269. Muscatine dismisses the suggestion that the Friar is named Huberd after St. Hubert, patron saint of hunters, and proposes an allusion to Hubert l'escoufle, the kite of Old French poems in the Renart tradition. The name Hubert had a dubious reputation in the medieval literary tradition, especially when associated with clerics and confessors.

Huberd, the ME development of French Hubert, appears in final rhyming position, Gen Prol 269.