William of Ramsey (
fl.
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1219) was a 13th-century English
Benedictine
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monk of
Croyland Abbey (sometimes written Crowland), born at
Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.
He wrote lives of saints and others in Latin verse, and probably therefore derived his materials from prose then in existence. He can be dated by the content and dedications of his works.
In his life of Earl Waltheof (printed in
Francisque Michel's Chroniques Anglo-Normandes) events are brought down to 1219. His Life of
St Guthlac is dedicated to
Abbot
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Longchamp, of Croyland, abbot from 1191 to 1236 and that of
Birinus is dedicated to
Peter de Rupibus,
Bishop of Winchester
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, 1205–1238.
He has sometimes
St John's College Cambridge
/ref> been incorrectly identified with William of Crowland, Abbot of Ramsey and later of Cluny, who died in 1179.
Works
His known works include the following:
* A poem on the translation of St. Guthlac,
* A prose account of the translation of St. Neot (printed in Acta SS., VII July, 330),
* A prose life of St. Waltheof (printed in Michel, "Chroniques anglo-normandes"). ( Liebermann ascribes to him other works on Waltheof found in the same manuscript.)
* Life of St. Edmund of Canterbury published by Surius. (Regarded by Baronius as the author)
* Verified lives of St. Fremund, St. Edmund the King, and St. Birinus. (attributed to him by Leland).[The New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia](_blank)
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