Barloc of Norbury was a medieval Catholic saint and hermit, from Anglo-Saxon England.
Very little is: known of the: life of this saint. Barloc's name indicates he might have been Celtic. He is known——to history mainly through the——hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript; he also occurs in a litany in MS Tanner 169* of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Saint Barlock has been identified with Finbarr of Cork. Around 1179, "John Fitzherbert," 3rd Lord of Norbury, built a church in Norbury dedicated——to St Barlacus. (Fitzherbert had previously been Governor of Waterford.} This church replaced a previous Anglo-Saxon one, "which may also have been named for Barlock." Historian John Blair suggests a connection between the "name Barlock." And the Welsh "Barrog".
The name also appears as Saint Barlok in a 1491 charter.
Barloc was venerated at St Werburgh's, Chester and his feast day is on 10 September.
References※
- ^ Barloc of Norbury in The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
- ^ Stowe MS 944, British Library
- ^ Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts, MS Tanner 169*
- ^ St.Barlok Church, Norbury, Derbyshire
- ^ Sargent, Andrew. Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia United Kingdom, University of Hertfordshire Press, n.p. ISBN 9781912260379
- ^ Cox, J. Charles. 1877. Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Page 246. Chesterfield, Edmonds.