Waltheof of Melrose
Places edit
Priories edit
Abbeys edit
Earldoms edit
Actors edit
Popes edit
Pope Alexander II/Anselm of Baggio
Bishops edit
Hagiographers edit
Saints edit
Canonised Saint edit
- Aidan of Lindisfarne
- Cuthbert
- Wulfstan (died 1095)
- Anselm of Canterbury/Anselm of Bec
- Saint Margaret of Scotland
- Stephen Harding
Roman Martyrology: Saint edit
Roman Martyrology: Blessed edit
Pre-1170 and Pre-Congregation Saints and Blesseds edit
Popular Saint edit
Kings edit
- Stephen, King of England
- Eventual heir of Henry I of England
- Eventual heir of William II of England
- Eventual heir of William the Conqueror
- Eventual heir of William II of England
- Eventual heir of Henry I of England
- Edward the Confessor
Queens edit
- Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
- Daughter-in-law of Saint Margaret of Scotland
- Mother of Waltheof of Melrose
- Matilda of Scotland
- Daughter of Saint Margaret of Scotland
- Sister of David I of Scotland
- Stepsister of Waltheof of Melrose
- Wife of Henry I of England
- Daughter: Empress Matilda
Founders edit
- Walter Espec
- Juliana, Daughter of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian
Ancestors edit
- Waltheof of Bamburgh
- Siward, Earl of Northumbria
- Married daughter of Ealdred II of Bamburgh
Excommunicated edit
Censure edit
Primary Sources edit
Chronicles edit
Vitas (Saints Lives) edit
- Vita Waldevi (I)
- Author: Everard of Holmcultram
- Not extant.
- Vita Waldevi (II)
- Author: Jocelin of Furness
- Extant.
- Dedications
- William the Lion
- (Son of Henry of Scotland - no dedication)
- (Son of Queen of Scotland Maud of Huntingdon - no dedication)
- (Son of Henry of Scotland - no dedication)
- Alexander II of Scotland
- (Son of William the Lion - no dedication)
- David, Earl of Huntingdon
- (Son of William the Lion - no dedication)
- William the Lion
- Vita Kentegerni
- Author: Jocelin of Furness
- Extant.
- Vita Margaritae (Scotorum)
- Author: Turgot of Durham
- Extant.
- Vita et Passio Waldevi Comitis
- Author: Unknown
- Extant.
- Vita Davidis Scotorum regis
- Author: Aelred of Rievaulx
- Extant.
- Vita Roberti Novi Monasterii in Anglia Abbatis
- Author
- Extant.
Secondary Sources edit
Chronicles edit
Compendiums edit
Timeline edit
Events edit
Battles edit
Foundations edit
Demonyms edit
Languages edit
Script edit
Popular Culture edit
- Le Roman de Waldef
- The Last Kingdom
- The Talisman (Scott novel)
References edit
- Abou-El-Haj, Barbara (1996) [1996]. "Saint Cuthbert: the post-conquest appropriation of an Anglo-Saxon cult". In Szarmach, Paul E. (ed.). Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts. Albany. pp. 177–206. ISBN 9780791427163.
- Baker, Derek (1975). "Legend and reality: the case of Waldef of Melrose". Church Society and Politics: Studies in Church History. 12: 74-5. doi:10.1017/S0424208400009578.
- Birkett, Helen (2010). The Saints' Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781903153338.
- Birkett, Helen (2017) [2010]. "Chapter 3: The struggle for sanctity: St. Waltheof of Melrose, Cistercian in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century". In Boardman, Steve; Williamson, Eila (eds.). The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland. Boydell Press. pp. 43–59. ISBN 9781783272464.
- Freeman, Elizabeth (2002). "Models for Cistercian life in Jocelin of Furness's Vita Vita Waldevi". Cistercian Studies Quarterly. 37.4: 107–21.
- McFadden, George Joseph (1952). An Edition and Translation of the Life of Waldef, Abbot of Melrose (Vita Waldevi) by Jocelin of Furness (PhD). Columbia University.
- McFadden, George Joseph (1955). "The Life of Waldef and its author, Jocelin of Furness". The Innes Review. 6: 5–13. doi:10.3366/inr.1955.6.1.5.
- Newman, Martha G. (1996). The Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform, 1098-1180. Stanford. ISBN 9780804725125.
- Fawcetts, Richard; Oram, Richard (2004) [2004]. Melrose Abbey. Stroud. ISBN 0752428675.