Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sulcard
SULCARD or SULGARD (fl. 1075), chronographer, probably of Norman origin, was a monk of Westminster in the time of Edward the Confessor. He wrote a history of the monastery, which he dedicated to the Abbot Vitalis (1072–1082). Two copies are extant among the Cottonian MSS. (Titus A. viii. ff. 1–60 and Faustina A. iii. ff. 11 seq.). A passage from the latter manuscript is printed in Dugdale's ‘Monasticon.’ Oudin ascribes to Sulcard a chronicle by William of Malmesbury. A lost collection of general history, sermons, and letters is also ascribed to Sulcard. When Henry III rebuilt the Westminster monastery, he moved the bones of Sulcard to the south side of the entry to the old chapter-house, and put up a marble tomb with an inscription, of which the last two lines were:
Abbas Edwynus et Sulcardus cenobita:
Sulcardus major est; Deus assit eis.
According to Pits there was in his day a stone to be seen at Westminster bearing the inscription:
Sulcardus monachus et chronographus.
[Dart's Hist. of Westminster Abbey; Pits, De Illustr. Angliæ Script.]