Serlo of Wilton explained

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Birth Date:	1105
Death Date:	1181

Serlo of Wilton (1105–1181) was a 12th-century English poet, a friend of Walter Map^[1] and known to Gerald of Wales.^[2] He studied and taught at the University of Paris. He became a Cluniac and then a Cistercian monk, and in 1171 he became abbot of L'Aumône Abbey, a Cistercian monastery between Chartres and Blois. He died in 1181.

Serlo's poems are in Latin, of which the most famous is Linquo coax ranis.

He is the subject of an 1899 essay by the French author Marcel Schwob, La légende de Serlon de Wilton.

Bibliography

• Book: Almqvist & Wiksell. Jan Öberg (ed.). Serlon de Wilton. Poèmes latins. Stockholm. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia. 1965.
• Book: Cistercian Publications. 978-0-87907-048-9. Lawrence C. Braceland (ed.), Lawrence C. Braceland (trans.). Serlo of Savigny and Serlo of Wilton. Seven unpublished works. Kalamazoo, MI. Cistercian Fathers. 1987. registration.
• Book: Raby, F.J.E.. 2. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-814325-3. A history of secular Latin poetry in the Middle Ages. Oxford. 1957.
• 10.2307/43629790. 0025-8385. A. G. Rigg. 65. 1. 96–101. Rigg. A.G.. Serlo of Wilton: Biographical notes. Medium Ævum. 1996. 43629790.
• 10.2307/43630121. 0025-8385. 68. 1. 1–12. Thomson. Rodney M.. Serlo of Wilton and the schools of Oxford. Medium Ævum. 1999. 43630121.

Notes and References

1. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium 2.4.
2. Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae 2.33.