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{{Infobox officeholder 
| office              = [[Lord Chancellor]]
| term_start          = 1102
| term_end            = 1107
| monarch             = [[Henry I of England]]
| predecessor         = [[Roger of Salisbury]]
| successor           = [[Ranulf (chancellor)|Ranulf]]
}}

'''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 [[List of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers|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>({{cite journal|author=Johnson, Charles |title=Waldric, the Chancellor of Henry I |journal=[[The English Historical Review]] |volume=51 |issue=201 |date=January 1936 |pages=103–104 |doi=10.1093/ehr/li.cci.103}}).</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 (historian)|Frank Barlow]], ''The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216'' (4th edition 1988), p. 177.</ref>

As bishop he was greedy and violent,<ref>[http://historion.net/davis-medieval-europe/ix-the-free-towns.html Medieval Europe, by H. W. C. Davis | HISTORION<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011151410/http://historion.net/davis-medieval-europe/ix-the-free-towns.html |date=2008-10-11 }}</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 (historian)|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 (intentional community)|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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==References==
*[[H. W. C. Davis|Davis, H. W. C.]], "Waldric, the Chancellor of Henry I" ''[[The English Historical Review]]'' Vol. 26, No. 101 (January 1911), pp. 84-89
*[[Maurice Powicke|Powicke, F. Maurice]] and E. B. Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

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