biography
pronunciation:
[sawlzbree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1115–80)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and scholar, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, S England, UK. Educated in Paris under Abelard, he was a clerk to Pope Eugenius III and to Archbishop Theobald at Canterbury, but fell into disfavour with Henry II and retired to Reims, where he wrote Historia pontificalis (c.1163). He returned to England and witnessed Thomas Becket's murder in Canterbury. He became Bishop of Chartres (1176) and took part in the third Lateran Council (1179). A learned classical writer, he also wrote lives of Becket and Anselm. |
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