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Eadmer was born of Anglo-Saxon parentage, shortly before the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

He became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, where he made the acquaintance of Anselm, at that time visiting England as abbot of the Abbey of Bec.

The intimacy was renewed when Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 ; afterward Eadmer was not only Anselm's disciple, but also his friend and director, being formally appointed to this position by Pope Urban II.

In 1120 he was nominated to the bishopric of St. Andrews ( Cell Rígmonaid ), but as the Scots would not recognize the authority of the see of Canterbury he was never consecrated, and soon afterwards he resigned his claim to the bishopric.

His death accepted as during or after 1126 at page 291 of " Early Scottish Charters, Prior to 1153 ", Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie ( editor ), Glasgow, 1910, Published by James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1905, it is stated that Eadmer died on 13 January 1123 .. Eadmer must also be credited with being one of the first serious proponents of the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary when he defended popular traditions in his De Conceptione sanctae Mariae.