Philip of St Frideswide

Philip of St Frideswide (died after 1191) was an Augustinian canon and head of the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford.[1]

Philip's identity beyond that of prior is unknown. Gerald of Wales refers to him simply as 'Prioris […] sancte fridheswide Philippi'.[2] He has thus been known in scholarship under names such as 'Philippus de S. Fridiswida',[3] although Richard Sharpe suggested 'Philip of Oxford'.[4]

Philip is the author of a collection of miracles attributed to Frithuswith, The Miracles of St Frideswide (Miracula sancte Frideswide).[5] In the work, he names himself as prior on the day of the translation of her relics, 12 February 1180.[6]

References

  1. ^ Knowles, David; Brooke, C. N. L.; London, Vera C. M. (9 August 2001). The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, I 940–1216 (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 180. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511496226. ISBN 978-0-521-80452-3.
  2. ^ Gerald of Wales (1877). Davies, W. S. (ed.). Libellus inuectionum. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1.4.
  3. ^ Tanner, Thomas (1748). Wilkins, David (ed.). Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica: sive, De scriptoribus, qui in Anglia, Scotia, et Hibernia ad saeculi XVII initium floruerunt, literarum ordine juxta familiarum nomina dispositis commentarius. London: Bowyer. p. 596.
  4. ^ Sharpe, Richard (1997). A handlist of the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. Turnhout: Brepols. no. 1212. ISBN 978-2-503-50575-6.
  5. ^ Dunning, Andrew N. J. (2018). "St Frideswide's Priory as a centre of learning in early Oxford". Mediaeval Studies. 80: 253–296. ISSN 0076-5872.
  6. ^ Blair, John (1987). "Saint Frideswide Reconsidered" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 52: 71–127.


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