Waltheof of Melrose
Places
editPriories
editAbbeys
editEarldoms
editActors
editPopes
editPope Alexander II/Anselm of Baggio
Bishops
editHagiographers
editSaints
editCanonised Saint
edit- Aidan of Lindisfarne
- Cuthbert
- Wulfstan (died 1095)
- Anselm of Canterbury/Anselm of Bec
- Saint Margaret of Scotland
- Stephen Harding
Roman Martyrology: Saint
editRoman Martyrology: Blessed
editPre-1170 and Pre-Congregation Saints and Blesseds
editPopular Saint
editKings
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
editCensure
editPrimary Sources
editChronicles
editVitas (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
editChronicles
editCompendiums
editTimeline
editEvents
editBattles
editFoundations
editDemonyms
editLanguages
editScript
editPopular 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.