Gervase of Chichester

Gervase of Chichester (died 1197) was an English clergyman and writer active in the late 12th century.

Career Gervase was a pupil or student of Hilary of Chichester, the bishop of Chichester. Around 1158 Gervase appears as a clerk of King Henry II of England, The king and Becket arranged for Gervase's appointment to two churches – Basing and Shelbourne in Berkshire – by Robert de Torigni, the abbot of Mont St Michel. His death date is not known, but his successor at Shelbourne was in office on 13 August 1197.

Writings Gervase was active as a writer in the late 12th century. Gervase's surviving works are Editio super Malachiam de ordinis sacerdotalis instructione, which survives in two manuscripts, and a collection of homilies, which survives in one manuscript that is mostly complete. The two further works follow the homilies in the one extant manuscript – one on Ezekiel and one on the birth of John the Baptist, may have been written by Gervase, but this is not certain.