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 from the Writings of Archbishop Ullathorne &hellip; arranged by the Rev. Michael F. Glancey,’ London, 1889, 8vo.



ULLERSTON, RICHARD (d. 1423), theological writer was born in the Duchy of Lancaster. He was taught by his relative, [q. v.], and on 19 Dec. 1383 he took orders. He took the degree of doctor of theology at Oxford. In 1407–8 he was chancellor of Oxford, and on 1 June 1407 he was made rector of Beford, Yorkshire. Anthony à Wood calls him a fellow of Queen's and canon of York (cf., Novum Repertorium, cixiv, 321).

He wrote in 1408 at the request of [q. v.], bishop of Salisbury, sixteen ‘Petitiones pro Ecclesiæ Militantis Reformatione,’ which have been printed in Von der Hardt's ‘Concilium Constantiense’ (i. 1126). In 1409 he wrote a work on the creed which was reissued with commentaries by [q. v.] in 1463. His commentary on the Psalms, written in 1415, was dedicated to or Chicheley [q. v.]; it is extant among Lord Mostyn's manuscripts (Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. App. p. 349). His ‘De Officio Militari,’ written at Courtenay's request to Henry, prince of Wales, is in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (clxxvii. 26). In 1415 he wrote ‘Expositions on the Song of Songs,’ based on Nicholas de Lyra, of which there is a copy in the Magdalen MS. cxv. A copy of his ‘Defensorium Dotationis Ecclesiasticæ’ (per Constantinum) is in Exeter Cathedral library (No. 46, according to Oudin); it was seen there by Leland (Comm. iii. 151).



ULSTER,. [See, d. 1219?;, d. 1242?;, called Earl of Ulster, d. 1271;, second earl of the Burgh family, 1259?-1326; , third earl, 1312-1332; , 1338-1368; , 1374-1398; , 1391-1425.]

ULTAN (d. 656), Irish saint, called of Ardbrecain to distinguish him from eighteen other saints of the same name in the Irish calendar, was the tribal bishop of his clan, the Dal Conchubhair, whose country lay round Ardbrecain in Meath. As his episcopal jurisdiction in later times became part of that of Meath, he is considered an ecclesiastical predecessor of the bishops of that diocese. The mother of St. Brigit [q. v.], who was Broicsech of the Dal Conchubhair, was his kinswoman. In the ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ Ultan is said to have made collections for the ‘life’ of St. Patrick, and Tirechan in the ‘Book of Armagh’ is made to say that Ultan told him, as an eye-witness, of Patrick's life. This error has led to the statement that Ultan was aged 189 when he died in 656. He is mentioned in later writings as a biographer of Brigit, and the Irish hymn (Liber Hymnorum, i. 110), ‘Brigit be bith-maith’—‘Brigit, woman ever good’—is attributed to him, as is the Latin hymn (ib. i. 14), ‘Christus in nostra insola quæ vocatur Hibernia,’ but in each case other authors are possible. Besides his literary occupations, Ultan is always mentioned as feeding and teaching orphans, and as addicted, like St. Erc of Slane, to bathing in cold water. His well at Killinkere in Cavan, near the borders of Meath, was long a place of pilgrimage; 4 Sept. is celebrated as the day of his death. A hymn in his honour is printed by Dümmler in his ‘Poetæ Latini Ævi Carolini.’



UMFRAVILLE, GILBERT, (1244?–1307), was the son of Gilbert de Umfraville and Matilda, countess of Angus. The Umfravilles, a Norman house whose name is derived from Amfreville, between Brionne and Louviers in Normandy, had possessed since the Conquest the liberty of Redesdale in Northumberland (cf. Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall, p. 563), and since Henry I's time the castle of Prudhoe, south of the Tyne, in the same county (ib. p. 563;, Baronia Anglica, p. 244). The elder Gilbert is described by Matthew Paris as a ‘præclarus baro, partium borealium custos et flos singularis’ (Hist. Major, iv. 415). Matilda, his wife, was daughter and heiress of Malcolm, earl of Angus, the last male representative of the old Celtic earldom of Angus, a dignity that had become feudalised