Ebrulf

Ebrulf was of noble birth, born at Bayeux. He was a courtier at the Merovingian court of Childebert I, serving as a cup-bearer to the king and an administrator of the royal palace. He lived a devout life and wished to become a monk. It was some time before he was given leave to go from court, and both he and his wife took monastic vows. Ebrulf entered the abbey of Deux Jumeaux before deciding to become a hermit at Exmes, but there, crowds came to visit and ask for his advice,) Members of the nobility came to Ebrulf offering him money, land, houses to build monasteries. He founded, after 560, several monasteries in the diocese of Séez; one of them became the important Abbey of St-Martin-de-Séez. ==Veneration==

He was venerated in England as a result of the Norman invasion, and the link between Ebrulf and England was maintained by the fact that four abbots from Saint-Evroul Abbey ruled English monasteries in the 11th and 12th centuries. They brought to England some of Ebrulf's relics. There was a feast commemorating the translation of his relics kept at Deeping Abbey in England on August 30. ==In literature==

The Historia Ecclesiastica of the Benedictine chronicler Orderic Vitalis contains the earliest Vita Sancti Ebrulfi (Life of St. Ebrulf). Ebrulf is mentioned in Beroul's Tristan, when Tristan invokes him at the fountain: " Ha ! Dex, beau sire saint Evrol, Je ne pensai faire tel perte." Cardiff Central Library holds a manuscript that contains a "Life" of Ebrulf, possibly compiled for the nuns of Barking Abbey. ==Notes==