Goscelin

Goscelin

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (or Goscelin of Canterbury) was a Benedictine hagiographical writer. His date of birth is unknown, but it cannot have been later than the early 1040s. He was a Fleming or Brabantian by birth and became a monk of St Bertin's at Saint-Omer before travelling to England to take up a position in the household of Bishop Herman of Ramsbury (1058-78). During his time in England, he stayed at many monasteries and collected, wherever he went, materials for his numerous hagiographies of English saints.