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The most popular biography of St. Edward the Confessor. Aelred of Rievaulx’s Vita sancti Ædwardi Regis et Confessoris was written on request of Laurence, abbot of Westminster, soon after the canonization of King Edward in 1161, and was presented to King Henry II on the occasion of the translation of the body of the saint on the 13th of October 1163. Preceded by a biography written by an anonymous author for Edward’s wife, Queen Edith, and by the clearly hagiographical biography written by the prior of Westminster, Osbert of Clare, in 1138, Aelred’s Vita enriched the hagiographical dossier of the saint with new miraculous episodes and was also endowed with strong political messages. It soon became the official biography of the saint and its fortune is witnessed not only by the number of manuscripts that contain the text, but also by the fact that all the successive biographies of the saint were directly or indirectly dependent on it. This first critical edition of the Vita provides a text based on the best manuscript witnesses together with the editio princeps of a versification of the Vita written by an anonymous poet few years later.

Edward, --- Aelred, --- Vita Sancti ¡dwardi versifice. --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- Early works to 1800. --- Vie d'Edouard le Confesseur --- Grande-Bretagne --- Biography --- Early works to 1800 --- History --- Sources --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Histoire --- Christian saints --- Christian saints. --- Kings and rulers. --- Vita S. Edwardi regis et confessoris (Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint). --- 449-1066. --- England --- England. --- Great Britain. --- Church history --- 2 AELREDUS RIEVALLENSIS --- 2 AELREDUS RIEVALLENSIS Godsdienst. Theologie--AELREDUS RIEVALLENSIS --- Godsdienst. Theologie--AELREDUS RIEVALLENSIS --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Aedward, --- Aedwardus, --- Eadward, --- Eadweard --- Edouard, --- Edward --- Medieval Latin literature --- Edward the Confessor [King of England] --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Eduardus Confessor rex Anglorum