Walter Map

Walter Map
Walter Map
Born c. 1140
Herefordshire, England
Died circa 1209
Occupation Clergyman
Writer

Walter Map (born 1140, died c. 1208–1210) was a medieval writer of works written in Latin. Only one work is attributed to Map with any certainty: De Nugis Curialium.

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Life

He claims Welsh origin and to be a man of the Welsh Marches (marchio sum Walensibus); details in his writings suggest that he came from Herefordshire. He studied at the University of Paris, apparently around 1160 when Gerard la Pucelle was teaching there. He had encountered Thomas Becket before 1162. As a courtier of King Henry II of England he was sent on missions to Louis VII of France and to Pope Alexander III, probably attending the Third Lateran Council in 1179 and encountering a delegation of Waldensians. On this journey he stayed with Henry I of Champagne, who was then about to undertake his last journey to the East.

Walter was holding a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln by 1183 and was chancellor of the diocese by 1186.[1] Walter Map later became precentor of Lincoln, a canon of St Paul's, London and of Hereford[2] and, in 1196, archdeacon of Oxford.[3]

He was a candidate to succeed William de Vere as Bishop of Hereford in 1199, but was unsuccessful. He was once more a candidate for a bishopric in 1203, this time as Bishop of St David's, but was once more not consecrated. He was still alive on 28 May 1208 but had died by September of 1210. His death was commemorated on 1 April at Hereford Cathedral.[3]

Writings

Walter Map's only surviving work, De Nugis Curialium (Trifles of Courtiers) is a collection of anecdotes and trivia, containing court gossip and a little real history, and written in a satirical vein. Along with William of Newburgh, he recorded the earliest stories of English vampires.

The French language Prose Lancelot cycle claims him, "Gauthier Map," as an author, though this is contradicted by internal evidence; some scholars have suggested he wrote an original, lost Lancelot romance that was the source for the later cycle. Map was alleged to have written a quantity of Goliardic poetry, including the satirical Apocalypse of Golias.

Notes

  1. ^ British History Online Chancellors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007
  2. ^ British History Online Precentors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007
  3. ^ a b British History Online Archdeacons of Oxford accessed on October 28, 2007

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