Talk:The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy/Book 6/Chapter 10

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Bricstan was a Twelfth Century monk from Chatteris in East Anglia who, according to the manuscript, was falsely imprisoned by "a servant of the devil". Following a vision of St Ethelreda and St. Benedict he was released at the request of Queen Matilda of Scotland, wife of King Henry I of England c.1115-6. The Historia Ecclesiastica by the Chronicler Orderic Vitalis (1075–c. 1142) is one of three contemporary accounts of the incident.