William of Ramsey

Who is William of Ramsey?

William of Ramsey was a 13th Century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey, born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.

He wrote wrote lives of saints and others in Latin verse, and probably therefore derived his materials from prose then in existence. He can be dated by the content and dedications of his works.

In his life of Earl Waltheof events are brought down to 1219. His Life of St. Guthlac is dedicated to Abbot Longchamp, of Croyland, abbot from 1191-1236 and that of Birinus is dedicated to Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, 1205-1238.

He has sometimes been incorrectly identified with William of Crowland, Abbot of Ramsey and later of Cluny, who died in 1179.