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SAMSON (1135-1211)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 120 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMSON (1135-1211) , See also:abbot of St See also:Edmund's, was educated in See also:Paris and became a teacher in See also:Norfolk, the See also:county of his See also:birth. In 1166 he entered the See also:great See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of St Edmund's as a See also:monk and was chosen abbot in See also:February 1182. He was a careful and vigilant See also:guardian of the See also:property of the abbey, but he found See also:time to attend royal See also:councils and to take See also:part in public business; also he was frequently entrusted with commissions from the See also:pope. During the See also:absence of See also:Richard I. from See also:England he acted with vigour against See also:John and visited the See also:king in his See also:prison in See also:Germany. He did some See also:building at the abbey, where he died on the 3oth of See also:December 1211. Samson is famous for the encouragement which he gave to the See also:town of See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, the liberties of which he extended in spite of his own monks. His name is most See also:familiar owing to the references to him in See also:Carlyle's Past and See also:Present. See the See also:chronicle of Jocelyn of Brakeloud in vol. i. of the Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey, edited by T. See also:Arnold (189o) ; and J. R. See also:Green, Stray Studies (1892).

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