Waldric
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Waldric<ref>Gauldric, Gaudry, Guadri, Galdric, Goldric, Gualdricus, Waldricus.</ref> (aka Gaudry,<ref>Frank Barlow, ‘Waldric [Gaudry] (d. 1112)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 24 Nov 2012</ref> died 1112) was the eighth Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England, from 1103<ref>His attestations of charters show that Waldric entered the office between 13 April and 24 May 1103.</ref> to 1107.<ref>(Template:Cite journal).</ref> He was also Bishop of Laon from 1106 to 1112.<ref name="Powicke81">Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 81</ref> He had been a royal chaplain as early as 3 September 1101.<ref>Johnson 1936.</ref>
At the battle of Tinchebray (1106), Orderic Vitalis states, Waldric capellanus regis captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy.<ref>Frank Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 (4th edition 1988), p. 177.</ref>
As bishop he was greedy and violent,<ref>Medieval Europe, by H. W. C. Davis | HISTORION Template:Webarchive</ref> unconventional in his habits and joking, a prodigal spender on himself; he is portrayed in very unflattering terms in the 1115 chronicle Monodiae of Guibert of Nogent. He had Gerard of Quierzy murdered<ref>Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation (1983), p. 509.</ref> in the very cathedral of Laon.
His election as bishop was contested; he had been hurried into minor orders after the battle and made a canon of Rouen, but it was upheld by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Langres.<ref>Marjorie Chibnall, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1978), note p. 90.</ref> He was murdered at Eastertide 1112, in the crypt of Laon Cathedral by citizens of Laon who had set up a commune in the city.<ref>Barlow, p. 261.</ref> Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary-historical value.<ref>Jill Mann, Nivardus, Ysengrimus: Text (1987), note p. 2.</ref>
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- Davis, H. W. C., "Waldric, the Chancellor of Henry I" The English Historical Review Vol. 26, No. 101 (January 1911), pp. 84-89
- Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
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