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an Englishman and abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury, who lived at the beginning of the 13th century, was distinguished for his steady adherence to king John, for which he was excommunicated. He wrote various treatises, among them De Ecclesice Potestate. He died either in 1217 or 1220.