{{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | name =Gilbert Universalis | image = | religion =Catholic | title = Bishop of London | elected = December 1127 | consecration = 22 January 1128 | ended = 9 August 1134 | predecessor = Richard de Beaumis | successor =Anselm of St Saba | death_date =9 August 1134 }}

'''Gilbert Universalis''' or '''Gilbertus Universalis'''{{efn|{{langx|en|Gilbert the Universal}}}} (died 1134) was a medieval Bishop of London.

==Life==

Gilbert was elected to the see of London about December 1127.<ref name=BHOLondon>Greenway ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops]''</ref> He was consecrated on 22 January 1128. He died on 9 August 1134.<ref name=Handbook258>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258</ref> His death was commemorated on 9 August.<ref name=BHOLondon/>

==Works==

Gilbert the Universal worked on the so-called ''Glossa ordinaria'', a compilation of what historically prominent commentators had written on the books of the Bible. Gilbert also compiled the ''Gloss on Lamentations''. He is particularly notable for developing the previous compilation of Paschasius Radbertus on ''Lamentations'' into an argument for the Christian use of Ciceronian rhetoric.

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==References== * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Bishops |title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300|volume=1, St. Paul's, London|section-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 |access-date= 28 October 2007|publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1968}}

==Further reading== *{{Cite book | publisher = Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis | isbn = 91-7155-069-0 | last = Gilbert the Universal | editor = Alexander Andrée | title = Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete. Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation| location = Stockholm| series = Studia Latina Stockholmiensia 52| date = 2005 }}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef| before=Richard de Beaumis }} {{s-ttl | title=Bishop of London | years= 1128–1134 }} {{s-aft | after=Anselm of St Saba}} {{s-end}}

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{{short description|12th-century Bishop of London}}

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