Waldric

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Waldric^[1] was the eighth Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England, from 1102 to 1107. He was also Bishop of Laon from 1106 to 1112.^[2]

1 Life
2 Reference
3 Notes
4 References
5 See also

[edit] Life

At the battle of Tinchebray (1106) he captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy^[3].

As bishop he was greedy and violent^[4]; he is portrayed in very unflattering terms in the 1115 chronicle Monodiae of Guibert of Nogent. He had Gerard of Quierzy murdered^[5].

His election as bishop was contested - at the time of the battle he was in minor orders only - but it was upheld by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Langres^[6]. He was murdered, beneath Laon Cathedral, by citizens of Laon who had set up a commune in the city^[7]. Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary-historical value^[8]. .

[edit] Reference

H. W. C. Davis, Waldric, the Chancellor of Henry I, The English Historical Review, Vol. 26, No. 101 (January 1911), pp. 84-89

[edit] Notes

^ Gauldric, Gaudry, Guadri, Galdric, Goldric, Gualdricus, Waldricus.
^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 81
^ Frank Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 (4th edition 1988), p. 177.
^ http://historion.net/davis-medieval-europe/ix-the-free-towns.html
^ Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation (1983), p. 509.
^ Marjorie Chibnall, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1978), note p. 90.
^ Barlow, p. 261.
^ Jill Mann, Nivardus, Ysengrimus: Text (1987), note p. 2.

[edit] References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

[edit] See also

List of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers

Political offices
Preceded by Roger of Salisbury	Lord Chancellor 1102–1107	Succeeded by Ranulf
Religious titles
Preceded by Enguerrand	Bishop of Laon 1107–1112	Succeeded by Hugo