About Benet of St Albans
Benet of St Albans was a writer.
Benet of St Albans was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket.
Benet was a monk at the Benedictine monastery of St Albans Abbey during the abbacy of Simon (1167–1183). About 1184, Benet composed a hagiography of Becket in French verse, basing it partly on the now-lost work of Robert of Cricklade.
The verses have been edited and published by F. Michel in 1844. In turn, Benet's work was used as a source for the 14th-century Icelandic saga about Becket titled Thómas saga erkibyskups.
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