Geoffrey of Wells (Galfridius Fontibus)^{[note 1]} was a mid-12th-century English hagiographer and a canon of Wells Cathedral, whose De Infantia Sancti Edmundi ("The infancy of Saint Edmund"),^[1] part of the burgeoning library of 12th-century legendaries concerning Saint Edmund,^[2] accounted the royal saint's childhood to have been full of adventure.^{[note 2]} He dedicated his "largely spurious account"^[3] to Ording, eighth abbot of Bury St. Edmunds,^[4] and spoke of the encouragement of another well-placed Anglo-Saxon, Prior Sihtric. The manuscript of Geoffrey's pious embroidery was among the manuscripts collected by the early 17th-century antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton, now conserved in the British Library in London.^[5]