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| Upon the death of Bishop Fulbert
on (presumably) 10 April, 1028, it apears that the Cathedral chapter voted
to elect their Dean, Albert, to be his sucessor. Count Odo of Blois/Chartres
seems to have supported Albert's candacy, but King Robert opposed it, favoring
the capicerius(1) of the
chapter, one Theodoric. There appears to have been a somewhat protracted
dispute over the election, but Theodoric won in the end and Albert became
a monk at Marmoutier (where, after a few years, he became Abbot, serving
until his death on 20 May, 1064).(2)
1. Albert is mentioned as capicerius in an act of Count Odo for St. John's of Chartres of circa 1028 (CSJ 1, after an "original" in the AEL, H.3084). 2. Albert was, apparently, from
some "La Ferté" ("Firmitate") family (in the Blesois, Chartraine,
or Orleanais); he appears in the necrology of the Cathedral of Chartres,
wherein he is styled "rerum ecclesiasticarum procurator egregius" (Obits
13AB). During his term as Abbot, at least 36 priories were added
to the orbit of Marmoutier, and he was said to have been revered as a near
saint by his brothers (cf. GC XIV, c. 202; Clerval in the DHGE, I, cc.
1432ff, Martene,
Hist. de Marmoutier,
II, p. 278; Guillot I, p.
245; II, C247; S. Fanning,
A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian
Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006-1047 [Philadelphia, 1988], pp. 37, 59,
n. 99).
If you happen to know of any good Theodoric-related
sources or links, I would like to hear of them.
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