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Andr--Yves Bourg-s <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The father of Gilduin wasn't exactly the count of Dol, because the
(archi)bishop was in fact. Once called dux, the lords of Dol were rather the
"vidame" of the (archi)bishop and "porte-enseigne" of saint Samson, himself
known as the founder of the episcopal see (signifer sancti Samsonis). Please
have a look on F. Duine, La métropole de Dol, Paris, 1916, p. 117, 121 and
footnote 1 p. 122.
if i'm understanding you correctly, this would seem to be a rather unusual
situation --the vidame being the lord of the whole city?
at Chartres (and, i believe, elsewhere), the Vidames were ex officio canons of
the cathedral but apparently the chief secular _homo_ of the bishop, holding
from him, in fief, considerable property and rights, some in the city, some
nearby, some on the very borders of the diocese.
> There is a vita Gilduini, which was composed at the end of the 12th century,
at Chartres.
my (not too good) memory is that his tomb in the Benedictine abbey of St.
Peter's
http://centrechartraine.freeservers.com/abbeys/s-peter/1682drawing.jpg
was unearthed in the early 12th century in the course of a building campaign
and became an object of pilgrimage.
the details might be in his Vita, which i've put on-line here :
http://centrechartraine.freeservers.com/abbeys/s-peter/vita-gilduini.html
there is an account of his of, i believe, the inventio, translatio and,
perhaps, miracles published in the Analecta Bollandiana in the 1880s, but i
don't have the reference at hand.
best from here,
christopher
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