# Folcard > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Folcard > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Folcard.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folcard > Source revision: 1337238801 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Folcard** or **Foulcard** (fl. 1066) was a Flemish [hagiographer](/source/Hagiographer). ## Life Folcard, a Fleming by birth, was a monk of [St. Bertin's](/source/Abbey_of_St._Bertin) in Flanders (now Northern France), and is supposed to have come over to England in the reign of [Edward the Confessor](/source/Edward_the_Confessor). He entered the monastery of [Christ Church, Canterbury](/source/Christ_Church%2C_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](/source/Norman_Conquest) the king set him over [Thorney Abbey](/source/Thorney_Abbey) in [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire); but he was never strictly [abbot](/source/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](/source/Bishop_of_Lincoln), [Remigius de Fécamp](/source/Remigius_de_F%C3%A9camp); and returned, as may be inferred from [Ordericus Vitalis](/source/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](/source/Aldred), [Archbishop of York](/source/Archbishop_of_York), who persuaded the queen either of the Confessor or of the [Conqueror](/source/William_the_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](/source/Vita_%C3%86dwardi_Regis)*, the life of [Edward the Confessor](/source/Edward_the_Confessor), commissioned by his wife [Edith](/source/Edith_of_Wessex). The historian [Tom Licence](/source/Tom_Licence) defends Folcard's authorship, but other scholars favour [Goscelin](/source/Goscelin).[1][2][3] ## Works - *Vita S. Bertini* ([Saint Bertin](/source/Saint_Bertin)), dedicated to Bovo, abbot of St. Bertin's from 1043 to 1065, and printed in [Mabillon](/source/Mabillon)'s *Acta SS. O. S. B*. III. ii. 104, and in [Migne](/source/Jacques_Paul_Migne)'s *Patrologia*, cxlvii. 1082. - *Vita Audomari* ([Saint Audomar](/source/Saint_Audomar)), in Mabillon, ii. 557, and Migne. - A poem *in honorem S. Vigoris Episcopi* ([Saint Vigor](/source/Saint_Vigor)), written between 1045 and 1074, in [Achery](/source/Luc_d'Achery)'s *Spicilegium*, iv. 576, and Migne. - *Vita S. Oswaldi* ([Oswald of Worcester](/source/Oswald_of_Worcester)), in Mabillon, i. 727, the [Bollandists](/source/Bollandists)' *[Acta Sanctorum](/source/Acta_Sanctorum)*, [Capgrave](/source/John_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.[a] - *Vita S. Botulfi* ([Botwulf of Thorney](/source/Botwulf_of_Thorney)), suggested by the fact that the relics of the saint were at Thorney, dedicated to [Walkelin](/source/Walkelin), [Bishop of Winchester](/source/Bishop_of_Winchester), and therefore written in or after 1070, in Mabillon, III. 1, the Bollandists' *Acta SS*. June iv. 324, and Migne. ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** A now lost manuscript of this work also contained a *Vita S. Johannis* written by [William Ketel](/source/William_Ketel), which was transcribed and published in the *[Acta Sanctorum](/source/Acta_Sanctorum)*.[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Barlow, Frank, ed. (1992). *The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster* (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. xlvi–xlvii. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-820203-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-820203-5). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Stafford, Pauline (2001). *Queen Emma and Queen Edith* (paperback ed.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. p. 41. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-631-16679-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-16679-5). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Licence, Tom (2020). *Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood*. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 11. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-21154-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-21154-2). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Rollason, David (2004). "Ketel, William". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/15481](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F15481). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): "[Folcard](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Folcard)". *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). 1885–1900. 11th-century Flemish haigiographer and monk --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Folcard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folcard) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folcard?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.