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Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate successively Abbot of Gloucester Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Born to an ecclesiastical family he became a monk at Cluny Abbey in France at about the age of twenty. After holding two posts as prior in the Cluniac order he was appointed Abbot of Gloucester Abbey in 1139 a promotion influenced by his kinsman Miles of Gloucester.
