Osbert of Clare
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Osbert of Clare was a monk Westminster Abbey
, elected Prior and briefly abbot. He was a prolific writer of letters, a hagiographer and a forger of charters
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of Westminster Abbey. He himself composed a Life of St Eadburh of Winchester
for Pershore Abbey
and a Life of St Æthelberht of East Anglia, dedicated to Gilbert Foliot
sometime after 1148.
Westminster Abbey
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...
, elected Prior and briefly abbot. He was a prolific writer of letters, a hagiographer and a forger of charters
Charters
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Works
By 1138, he had reworked the vita Ædwardi regisVita Ædwardi Regis
The Vita Ædwardi Regis qui apud Westmonasterium Requiescit or simply Vita Ædwardi Regis is a historical work completed by an anonymous author c. 1067 and commissioned by Queen Edith, wife of King Edward the Confessor. It survives in one manuscript, dated c. 1100, now in the British Library...
of Westminster Abbey. He himself composed a Life of St Eadburh of Winchester
Edburga of Winchester
Saint Eadburh was the daughter of King Edward the Elder of England and his third wife, Eadgifu of Kent. There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she appears as the beneficiary of land in Hampshire granted by her brother King Athelstan.She was a...
for Pershore Abbey
Pershore Abbey
Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church.-Foundation:The foundation of the minster at Pershore is alluded to in a spurious charter of King Æthelred of Mercia...
and a Life of St Æthelberht of East Anglia, dedicated to Gilbert Foliot
Gilbert Foliot
Gilbert Foliot was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Born to an ecclesiastical family, he became a monk at Cluny Abbey in France at about the age of twenty...
sometime after 1148.
- Letters, ed. E.W. Williamson, The letters of Osbert of Clare, prior of Westminster. Oxford, 1929. Reprinted in 1998.
- Charters, ed. by E. Mason, J. Bray, and D. J. Murphy (eds.). Westminster Abbey charters, 1066–c.1214. RS 25. London, 1988.
- Vita Edburgae, MS. Laud Misc. 114, f. 85–120 (Bodleian, Oxford), ed. S.J. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England. A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 4. Cambridge, 2008. 253 ff (Appendix).
- Vita Ædwardi regis "The Life of King Edward", ed. and tr. F. Barlow, The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster Attributed to a Monk of Saint-Bertin. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1992. Some indications occur in the text where Osbert's hand is noticeable; ed. M. Bloch, "La vie de S. Édouard le Confesseur par Osbert de Clare." Analecta Bollandiana 41 (1923): 5–131;
Further reading
- Barlow, Frank. “Osbert of Clare:”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 30 Jan 2008.