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Benet of St Albans was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket.

Benet was a monk at the Benedictine monastery of St Albans Abbey during the abbacy of Simon (1167-1183). About 1184, Benet composed a hagiography of Becket in French verse, basing it partly on the now-lost work of Robert of Cricklade.^[1] This set of verses is one of the secondary sources for Becket's life.^[2]

The verses have been edited and published by F. Michel in 1844.^[1] In turn, Benet's work was used as a source for the 14th-century Icelandic saga about Becket titled Thómas saga erkibyskups.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b Barlow Thomas Becket p. 7
^ Barlow Thomas Becket p. 6
^ Staunton Lives of Thomas Becket p. 11

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Barlow, Frank (1986). Thomas Becket. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07175-1.
Staunton, Michael (2001). "Introduction". The Lives of Thomas Becket: Selected Sources Translated and annotated by Michael Staunton. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 1–39. ISBN 0-7190-5455-9.

[Barlow7-1] Barlow Thomas Becket p. 7

[Barlow6-2] Barlow Thomas Becket p. 6

[Lives11-3] Staunton Lives of Thomas Becket p. 11

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