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Aelred of Rievaulx (Ailred, Ælred, Æthelred) Saint
lived 1110-1167

Aelred was born in Hexham, Northumbria, in 1110. He spent the beginning of his childhood in the court of King David of Scotland. The king wanted him to become a bishop, but Aelred wished instead to become a monk at the abbey at Rievaulx. In 1446 he was elected as abbott, putting him in charge of all Cistercian abbots in England as well. This position required him to travel throughout Scotland and England, and to Ireland and France. He wrote several books on spirituality, including Speculum caritatis and De spiritali amicitia, and histories such as the Life of St. Edward, Battle of the Standard, and The Life of Saint Ninian.

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OMSB Records by Aelred of Rievaulx:

• Forbes, A.P., trans., Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern, Compiled in the twelfth century (The Historians of Scotland 5. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1874 [Rpt. 2000]).
• Matarasso, Pauline, trans., The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (New York: Penguin Classics, 1993).
• Ayton, John, ed.; Barratt, Alexandra, ed., Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum: Two English Versions (Early English Text Society Original Series 287, 1984).
• Knowles, David; Berkeley, Theodore, trans; Macpherson, Mary, trans; Lawson, R. Penelope, trans., The Works of Aelred of Rievaulx Volume One: Treatises, The Pastoral Prayer (Cistercian Fathers Series: 2, Spencer: Cistercian Publications, 1971).
• Luard, Henry Richards, ed., Lives of Edward the Confessor: La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei, Vita Beati Edvardi Regis et Confessoris, Vita Aeduuardi Regis qui Apud Westmonasterium Requiescit. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, (Rolls Series, No. 3), 1858).
• Laker, Mary, trans., Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1977).
• Williams, Mark, trans., Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship: A New Translation (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1994).
• Howlett, Richard, ed., Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I. (London: Longman & Co. (Rolls Series, No. 82), 4 vols., 1884-89).
• Atzeni, T.C.P. Antonio, ed., De Amicitia (The Latin Library Website, 2002).
• Berkeley, Theodore, trans; Pennington, M. Basil, trans., Aelred of Rievaulx: The Liturgical Sermons (Cistercian Fathers Series: 58, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2001).