Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (or Goscelin of Canterbury, born c. 1040, died in or after 1106) was a Benedictine hagiographical writer. He was a Fleming or...
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whether she became a nun or a secular member of the Wilton community. Goscelin, who completed her hagiography around 1080, reports that Edith "always...
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life is extracted from a late eleventh-century hagiography ascribed to Goscelin of St. Bertin's, a monk who came over to England with Hermann, bishop of...
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A Royal Charter of King Edgar to Wulfthryth, and the Vita Edithae by Goscelin. The medieval source record her as living an exemplary life of sanctity...
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abbey and established another monastery at Horton in Kent. According to Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, the nuns at Barking laid complaints against their abbess...
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had been rebuilt in stone due to the Royal patronage of Edith of Wessex. Goscelin of Canterbury was one of her mentors and he kept in contact with her after...
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named in the genealogies of some versions of the Kentish Royal Legend Goscelin of Saint-Bertin mentions Eanswith in his 11th-century Vita Sancta Werburge...
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servant of the queen and probably a Fleming. The most likely candidates are Goscelin and Folcard, monks of St Bertin Abbey in St Omer. It is a two-part text...
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958 (AD 1022), possibly a forgery. Goscelin, Lectiones in natale S. Eormenhilde, ed. and tr. Rosalind C. Love, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. The Hagiography...
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to Rome, and of the tears and breast-beating which accompanied them". Goscelin, writing later in the 11th century, instead has Canute place his crown...
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Ælfric's Lives of Saints, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Lives of Female Saints, the Liber Eliensis, Marie de...
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autumn of 1049 or the spring of 1050, Henry sent Bishop Gauthier of Meaux, Goscelin of Chauny, and other unnamed advisors to Yaroslav's court. It is possible...
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English saints and gave information about St Kenelm to his hagiographer, Goscelin. She died at Winchester on 18 December 1075. Matthew Paris records a tradition...
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Paul in the early 7th century. He was regarded locally as a saint, and Goscelin recounts the story of a miracle he performed to help the 11th-century artist...
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anonymous work which cut out the historical information, and another by Goscelin, which was hostile to Herman. Herman is described by the historian Tom...
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Wulfthryth. According to the late eleventh century Benedictine writer Goscelin, Edgar wished to marry her cousin Saint Wulfhild, the daughter of a nobleman...
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close interest in the well-being of several abbeys, and is reported by Goscelin to have used her authority to depose and later reinstate the abbess of...
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however, reveal that during Goscelin's lifetime persons suffering from gout were urged to pray at Mellitus' tomb. Goscelin records that Mellitus' shrine...
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called Wulfthryth. According to the late 11th-century Benedictine writer Goscelin, Edgar wished to marry her cousin Saint Wulfhild, the daughter of a nobleman...
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Augustine was written by Goscelin around 1090, but this life portrays Augustine in a different light, compared to Bede's account. Goscelin's account has little...
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ISBN 978-0-19-955078-4. Licence, Tom, ed. (2014). Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: Miracles of St Edmund. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press....
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King and Martyr), was written around 1100, probably by the hagiographer Goscelin. Post-Conquest chroniclers giving accounts of Edward's reign include William...
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life after it had been eaten, as recounted by the medieval hagiographer Goscelin. A stained glass window in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Weedon Bec...
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in Canterbury. At about the same time, a Life was written about him by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as a poem by Reginald of Canterbury. Other material...
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Abbo's hagiography, followed by Herman's. The hagiographer and musician, Goscelin, soon afterwards produced a revised version of Herman's Miracles, which...
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any way. According to several sources, including the Norman chronicler Goscelin, who knew him personally, Spearhafoc "was outstanding in painting, gold-engraving...
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appears in countless histories of English counties along with his sons, Goscelin, William, and Henry who inherited his estates after his death. The sons...
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Chronicon Vilodunense (Life of Saint Edith). Originally written in Latin by Goscelin sometime in the 11th century, it was later translated into the Wiltshire...
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William of Malmesbury and the Hagiographies of St Eadwold of Cerne, by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and also the Secgan. Eadwold died on 29 August c. 900,...
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