Editing Walter Map (section)

==Life==
Map claimed [[Wales|Welsh]] origins<ref>C. N. L. Brooke, "Map, Walter (d. 1209/10)" in ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18015 Paysite]</ref> and called himself a man of the [[Welsh Marches]] (''marchio sum Walensibus'');<ref>Literally "I am a borderer to the Welsh": Walter Map, ''[[De Nugis Curialium]]'' distinctio 2 chapter 23</ref> He was probably born in southwestern [[Herefordshire]].<ref name=Macpherson>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09635a.htm Macpherson, Ewan. "Walter Map." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''] Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 16 July 2021 {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name=Smith>[https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/15740_toc.html Smith, Joshua Byron. ''Walter Map and the Matter of Britain'', University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017] {{ISBN|9780812249323}}</ref> Medievalist Joshua Byron Smith suggests that Map may have begun his studies at [[Gloucester Abbey|St Peter's Abbey]] in Gloucester before continuing at the [[University of Paris]], apparently around 1154, when [[Gerard la Pucelle]] was teaching there. After his return from France Map was employed as a clerk by [[Gilbert Foliot]], the Bishop of Hereford, who was a former Abbot of St Peter's. When Foliot was [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|translated]] to the Diocese of London in 1163 Map followed him.<ref name=Smith/>

Map then became one of the clerks of the royal household and by 1173 he was an itinerant justice.<ref name=dnb>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Map, Walter|last=Kingsford|first=Charles Lethbridge|authorlink=Charles Lethbridge Kingsford|volume=36|no-icon=1}}</ref> As a courtier of King [[Henry II of England]], he was sent on missions to [[Louis VII of France]] and to [[Pope Alexander III]], and attended the [[Third Lateran Council]] in 1179, encountering a delegation of [[Waldensians]].<ref name=Macpherson/> On this journey he stayed with [[Henry I of Champagne]], who was then about to undertake his last journey to the East.

Map held a [[Prebendary|prebend]] in the [[Diocese of Lincoln]] by 1183 and was Chancellor of the Diocese by 1186.<ref name=BHOChancLincoln>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33563 British History Online Chancellors of Lincoln] accessed on October 28, 2007</ref> He later became [[Precentor]] of Lincoln, a [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of [[Old St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's, London]], and of [[diocese of Hereford|Hereford]],<ref name=BHOPrecentLincoln>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33562 British History Online Precentors of Lincoln] accessed on October 28, 2007</ref> and [[Archdeacon of Oxford]] in 1196.<ref name=BHOArchDOxford>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33570 British History Online Archdeacons of Oxford] accessed on October 28, 2007</ref>

Map was a candidate to succeed [[William de Vere]] as [[Bishop of Hereford]] in 1199, but was unsuccessful. He was once again a candidate for a bishopric in 1203, this time as [[Bishop of St David's]], but was not chosen. He was still alive on 28 May 1208 but died sometime between 1209 and 1210.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Joshua Byron |title=Walter Map and the Matter of Britain |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16t6m26 |website=Jstor |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |access-date=July 5, 2024 |date=2017|jstor=j.ctv16t6m26 |isbn=978-0-8122-4932-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Walter Map |url=https://talesofbritainandireland.com/walter-map/ |website=Tales of Britain and Ireland |date=11 April 2022 |access-date=July 5, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Walter Map |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Map |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=July 5, 2024 |date=April 26, 2024}}</ref> His death is commemorated at [[Hereford Cathedral]] on 1 April.<ref name=BHOArchDOxford/>