WaldricGauldric, Gaudry, Guadri, Galdric, Goldric, Gualdricus, Waldricus. (aka Gaudry,Frank Barlow, ‘Waldric [Gaudry] (d. 1112)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 24 Nov 2012 died 1112) was the eighth Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England, from 1103His attestations of charters show that Waldric entered the office between 13 April and 24 May 1103. to 1107.(). He was also Bishop of Laon from 1106 to 1112.Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 81 He had been a royal chaplain as early as 3 September 1101.Johnson 1936.
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.Frank Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 (4th edition 1988), p. 177.
As bishop he was greedy and violent,Medieval Europe, by H. W. C. Davis | HISTORION 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 murderedBrian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation (1983), p. 509. 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.Marjorie Chibnall, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1978), note p. 90. 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.Barlow, p. 261. Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary-historical value.Jill Mann, Nivardus, Ysengrimus: Text (1987), note p. 2.
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References 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