Gilbert (died c. 1198) was a 12th-century Augustinian

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. Active in

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, he may have been of Anglo-Norman origin. Gilbert was a canon of

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when he became

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in either 1196 or 1197, succeeding Prior Walter who had resigned because of ill-health.Watt and Shead, ''Heads of Religious Houses'', p. 187

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, in his list of St Andrews priors in the ''Scotichronicon'', says that Gilbert held office for two years of "busy activity" before falling ill at the priory's manor in

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, dying there soon after. His death probably fell in either late 1198 or early 1199. Afterwards Prior Walter resumed his old office (though he himself died within the year). Walter's time as prior coincided with the episcopate of

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.Watt and Murray, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 379

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