Folcard

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Folcard''' or '''Foulcard''' ({{fl.|1066}}) was a Flemish [[hagiographer]].

==Life== Folcard, a Fleming by birth, was a monk of [[Abbey of St. Bertin|St. Bertin's]] in Flanders (now Northern France), and is supposed to have come over to England in the reign of [[Edward the Confessor]]. He entered the monastery of [[Christ Church, Canterbury]], and was renowned for his learning, and especially for his knowledge of grammar and music; his manners were affable and his temper cheerful. Soon after the [[Norman Conquest]] the king set him over [[Thorney Abbey]] in [[Cambridgeshire]]; but he was never strictly [[abbot]], for he did not receive the benediction.

After holding the abbey about sixteen years Folcard retired, after a dispute with the [[Bishop of Lincoln]], [[Remigius de Fécamp]]; and returned, as may be inferred from [[Ordericus Vitalis]], to his own country. Either while he was a monk at Canterbury, or during his residence at Thorney, which seems more probable, he and his monastery were in some trouble, and were helped by [[Aldred]], [[Archbishop of York]], who persuaded the queen either of the Confessor or of the [[William the Conqueror|Conqueror]] to interest herself in their cause. In return Folcard wrote the ''Life of Archbishop John of Beverley'' for Aldred.

Folcard is one of two writers proposed as the author of the ''[[Vita Ædwardi Regis]]'', the life of [[Edward the Confessor]], commissioned by his wife [[Edith of Wessex|Edith]]. The historian [[Tom Licence]] defends Folcard's authorship, but other scholars favour [[Goscelin]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Frank|editor-last=Barlow |title=The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster |publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=xlvi-xlvii |location =Oxford, UK|edition=2nd |year=1992|isbn=978-0-19-820203-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Pauline|last=Stafford|title=Queen Emma and Queen Edith|page=41|edition=paperback|publisher=Blackwell|location=Oxford, UK|year= 2001|isbn=978-0-631-16679-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Licence|first=Tom |title=Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood|page=11 |publisher= Yale University Press|location= New Haven, Connecticut |year=2020|isbn=978-0-300-21154-2}}</ref>

==Works== * ''Vita S. Bertini'' ([[Saint Bertin]]), dedicated to Bovo, abbot of St. Bertin's from 1043 to 1065, and printed in [[Mabillon]]'s ''Acta SS. O. S. B''. III. ii. 104, and in [[Jacques Paul Migne|Migne]]'s ''Patrologia'', cxlvii. 1082. * ''Vita Audomari'' ([[Saint Audomar]]), in Mabillon, ii. 557, and Migne. * A poem ''in honorem S. Vigoris Episcopi'' ([[Saint Vigor]]), written between 1045 and 1074, in [[Luc d'Achery|Achery]]'s ''Spicilegium'', iv. 576, and Migne. * ''Vita S. Oswaldi'' ([[Oswald of Worcester]]), in Mabillon, i. 727, the [[Bollandists]]' ''[[Acta Sanctorum]]'', [[John Capgrave|Capgrave]], and Migne. * ''Responsoria for the Festival of St. John of Beverley'', composed before ''Vita S. Johannis Episcopi Eboracensis'', which was written before 1070, and is printed in the Bollandists' 'Acta SS.' May, ii. 165, Migne, and ''Historians of York'' (Rolls Ser.), i. 238.{{efn|A now lost manuscript of this work also contained a ''Vita S. Johannis'' written by [[William Ketel]], which was transcribed and published in the ''[[Acta Sanctorum]]''.<ref>{{cite ODNB |author = Rollason, David |title=Ketel, William |year=2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/15481}}</ref>}} * ''Vita S. Botulfi'' ([[Botwulf of Thorney]]), suggested by the fact that the relics of the saint were at Thorney, dedicated to [[Walkelin]], [[Bishop of Winchester]], and therefore written in or after 1070, in Mabillon, III. 1, the Bollandists' ''Acta SS''. June iv. 324, and Migne.

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{{short description|11th-century Flemish haigiographer and monk}}

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