Alan of Tewkesbury

Alan of Tewkesbury
Alan of Tewkesbury
Benedictine abbot and writer (d. 1202)

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Alan of Tewkesbury
    Alan of Tewkesbury
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    A Benedictine abbot and writer, d. 1202. Alan is stated by Gervase of Canterbury, a contemporary; chronicler, to have been English by race, i.e. not of Norman, or any immigrant, extraction. He is supposed to have spent some years at Benevento in Italy, before entering the Benedictine novitiate at Canterbury, where he became Prior in 1179. He zealously espoused the cause of the clergy against Henry II in the struggle which led to the martyrdom of St. Thomas; He was removed from Canterbury to the Abbey of; Tewkesbury, where he could less effectively oppose Henry's encroachments on the rights of the church; The intimacy with St. Thomas which Alan of Tewkesbury enjoyed, and his almost lifelong acquaintance with the politico-ecclesiastical controversies of the time, qualified him to write the "Life of St. Thomas", which (as Life of Becket) is printed in the second volume of "Materials for the History of Thomas Becket", edited by the Rev. J.C. Robertson (Rolls Series, London,; 1875-85; Part I, CXC, 1475-88). Alan also collected and arranged a number of the Saint's epistles. Critics are doubtful as to the genuineness of the other works traditionally ascribed to him.
    Dict. of Nat. Biog., s.v.; GERVASE, Chronica, ed. STUBBS (Rolls Series, London, 1879-80); ROBERTSON, preface to Materials for the History of Thomas Becket.
    E. MACPHERSON

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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