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Ralph Gubion

12th-century English monk and abbot

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12th-century English monk and abbot

Field	Value
name	Ralph Gubion
title	Abbot of St Albans
elected	1146
ended	1151
predecessor	Geoffrey de Gorham
successor	Robert de Gorron
death_date	6 July 1151

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Stone marking the 1978 reburial of the remains of Gubion and other Abbots of St Albans at [[St Albans Cathedral

Ralph Gubion (died 6 July 1151) was a native Englishman and abbot of St Albans Abbey from 1146 to 1151.

Gubion was a native of England, He occurs in a charter of the cathedral of Lincoln that is probably dated to the later half of 1147, but this cannot be taken as sure evidence that he was a canon of the Lincoln cathedral chapter. On 8 May 1146 he was elected abbot, and held office until 1150,

While abbot, he was alleged to have abused and tormented the prior of St Albans, Alcuin; eventually Alcuin transferred to Westminster Abbey to escape. Gubion appointed Robert de Gorron, who was the nephew of Gubion's predecessor – Geoffrey de Gorham – as abbot, as the new prior. Gubion also set the finances of the abbey on a firm footing, and obtained favourable privileges for the abbey from Pope Eugenius III.

Gubion was succeeded by the prior, Robert de Gorron. Gubion was noted as a great lover of books.

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although his surname indicates that his family was likely from Normandy or Brittany. Gubion was a monk at St Albans as well as being a clerk in the household of [[Alexander of Lincoln|Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln]]. Through the intercession of Alexander, Gubion was allowed to be simultaneously a monk at St Albans as well as continuing as Alexander's personal chaplain. Gubion had also served as Alexander's treasurer.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 105
Greenway "[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33632 Dignitaries and canons whose prebends are unidentified: (ii) Canons for whom no prebend assigned]" ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: volume 3: Lincoln''
Knowles ''Monastic Order'' p. 475

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