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ETHELRED AILRED IELRED (1109-1166)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 256 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETHELRED AILRED See also:IELRED (1109-1166)  , See also:English theologian, See also:historical writer and See also:abbot of See also:Rievaulx, was See also:born at See also:Hexham about the See also:year 1109 . In his youth he was at the See also:court of See also:Scotland as an attendant of See also:Henry, son of See also:David I . He was in high favour with that See also:sovereign, but renounced the prospect of a bishopric to enter the Cistercian See also:house of Rievaulx in See also:Yorkshire, which was founded in 1131 by See also:Walter Espec . Here "Eked remained for some See also:time as See also:master of the novices, but between the years 1142 and 1146 was elected abbot of Revesby in See also:Lincolnshire and migrated thither . In 1146 he became abbot of Rievaulx . He led a See also:life of the severest See also:asceticism, and was credited with the See also:power of working miracles; owing to his reputation the See also:numbers of Rievaulx were greatly increased . In 1164 he went as a missionary to the Picts of See also:Galloway . He found their See also:religion at a See also:low ebb, the See also:regular See also:clergy apathetic and sensual, the See also:bishop little obeyed, the laity divided by the See also:family feuds of their rulers, unchaste and ignorant . He induced a Galwegian See also:chief to take the See also:habit of religion, and restored the See also:peace of the See also:country . Two years later he died of a decline, at Rievaulx, in the fifty-seventh year of his See also:age . In the year 1191 he was canonized . His writings are voluminous and have never been completely published .

Amongst them are homilies " on the See also:

burden of See also:Babylon in See also:Isaiah "; three books " on spiritual friendship "; a life of See also:Edward the See also:Confessor; an See also:account of miracles wrought at Hexham, and the See also:tract called Relatio de Standardo . This last is an account of the See also:Battle of the See also:Standard (1138), better known than the similar account by See also:Richard of Hexham, but less trustworthy, and in places obscured by a peculiarly turgid See also:rhetoric . See the Vita Alredi in See also:John of See also:Tynemouth's Nova Legenda Anglie (ed . C . Horstmann, 1901, vol. i. p . 41), whence it was taken by See also:Capgrave . From Capgrave the See also:work passed into the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum (See also:Jan. ii. p . 30) . This life is See also:anonymous, but of an See also:early date . The most See also:complete printed collection of eElred's See also:works is in See also:Migne's Patrologia See also:Latina, vol. cxcv.; but this does not include the Miracula Hagulstaldensis Ecclesiae which are printed in J . Raine's Priory of Hexham, vol. i.(See also:Surtees Society, 1864) . A complete See also:list of works attributed to EElred is given in T .

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Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1748), pp . 247-248 . The Relatio de Standardo has been critically edited by R . Howlett in See also:Chronicles, &c., of See also:Stephen, Henry H. and Richard I., vol. iii . (Rolls See also:Series, 1886) . (H . W . C .

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