Robert Bale (monk)


Robert Bale, O.Carm.,, was an English Carmelite friar and scholar.

Biography

Bale was a native of Norfolk, and when very young entered the Carmelite monastery at Norwich. Having a great love of learning, he spent a portion of every year in the Carmelite priories at Oxford or Cambridge. He became prior of the monastery of his order at Burnham Norton,.
Bale enjoyed a high reputation for learning, and collected a valuable library, which he bequeathed to his priory upon his death on 11 November 1503.
His principal works were:
  1. Annales Ordinis Carmelitarum.
  2. Historia Heliæ Prophetæ
  3. Officium Simonis Angli.