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<p> the celebrated abbot of Croyland. long considered the author of the Historia Monasterii Croylandensis, is supposed to have been born at London about A.D. 1030. According to the account of his life in his history, he was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a great favorite of Edgitha, the wife of [[Edward]] the Confessor, and visited duke [[William]] of [[Normandy]] at his own court in 1051. About 1064 he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On his return he entered the monastery of Fontanelle, in Normandy, and there remained till 1076, when he was invited to [[England]] by the Conqueror, and made abbot of Croyland. He died Dec. 17, 1109. The Historia Monasterii Croylandensis was printed by Savile (in the collection Script.) at London in 1596, and in a more complete edition by Gale (Rer. Angl. Script. Vet.), at Oxford, in 1684. An English translation of it was furnished by Riley in Bohn's Antiquarian Library. "Some writers, even, of the last century questioned the entire genuineness of the book, though skepticism did not often proceed further than the hypothesis of interpolations by a later writer; but in 1826, the late Sir | Ingulphus <ref name="term_44965" /> | ||
==References == | <p> the celebrated abbot of Croyland. long considered the author of the Historia Monasterii Croylandensis, is supposed to have been born at London about A.D. 1030. According to the account of his life in his history, he was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a great favorite of Edgitha, the wife of [[Edward]] the Confessor, and visited duke [[William]] of [[Normandy]] at his own court in 1051. About 1064 he went on a pilgrimage to the [[Holy]] Land. On his return he entered the monastery of Fontanelle, in Normandy, and there remained till 1076, when he was invited to [[England]] by the Conqueror, and made abbot of Croyland. He died Dec. 17, 1109. The Historia Monasterii Croylandensis was printed by Savile (in the collection Script.) at London in 1596, and in a more complete edition by Gale (Rer. Angl. Script. Vet.), at Oxford, in 1684. An English translation of it was furnished by Riley in Bohn's Antiquarian Library. "Some writers, even, of the last century questioned the entire genuineness of the book, though skepticism did not often proceed further than the hypothesis of interpolations by a later writer; but in 1826, the late Sir Francis Palgrave, in an article in the Quarterly Review, endeavored to prove that the whole so-called history was little better than a novel, and was probably the composition of a monk in the 13th or 14th century. His conclusions have been, on the whole, almost universally adopted." See Chamber's Encyclopedia, 5, 579; Wetzer und Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, v, 625 sq. </p> | ||
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Ingulphus [1]
the celebrated abbot of Croyland. long considered the author of the Historia Monasterii Croylandensis, is supposed to have been born at London about A.D. 1030. According to the account of his life in his history, he was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a great favorite of Edgitha, the wife of Edward the Confessor, and visited duke William of Normandy at his own court in 1051. About 1064 he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On his return he entered the monastery of Fontanelle, in Normandy, and there remained till 1076, when he was invited to England by the Conqueror, and made abbot of Croyland. He died Dec. 17, 1109. The Historia Monasterii Croylandensis was printed by Savile (in the collection Script.) at London in 1596, and in a more complete edition by Gale (Rer. Angl. Script. Vet.), at Oxford, in 1684. An English translation of it was furnished by Riley in Bohn's Antiquarian Library. "Some writers, even, of the last century questioned the entire genuineness of the book, though skepticism did not often proceed further than the hypothesis of interpolations by a later writer; but in 1826, the late Sir Francis Palgrave, in an article in the Quarterly Review, endeavored to prove that the whole so-called history was little better than a novel, and was probably the composition of a monk in the 13th or 14th century. His conclusions have been, on the whole, almost universally adopted." See Chamber's Encyclopedia, 5, 579; Wetzer und Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, v, 625 sq.
