Note 1621 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.
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William of Newburgh, i. 2, remarks, “Aldredus verò Eboracensis Archiepiscopus, vir bonus et prudens, hoc munus implevit, acutiùs intelligens, cedendum esse tempori, et divinæ nequaquam resistendum ordinationi.” He is again followed by Walter of Hemingburgh. William of Poitiers (142) takes this opportunity to praise Ealdred as “æquitatem valdè amans, ævo maturus, sapiens, bonus, eloquens.” In Guy of Amiens too (791), though his name is not mentioned, he appears as
“Præsul celeberrimus unus,
Moribus insignis et probitate cluens.”
“Probitas” generally refers to warlike prowess; but Ealdred’s Welsh campaign (see vol. ii. p. 110) was not specially glorious.