Waldric^[1] (aka Gaudry,^[2] died 1112) was the eighth Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England, from 1103^[3] to 1107.^[4] He was also Bishop of Laon from 1106 to 1112.^[5] He had been a royal chaplain as early as 3 September 1101.^[6]

At the battle of Tinchebray (1106), Orderic Vitalis states, Waldric capellanus regis captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy.^[7]

As bishop he was greedy and violent,^[8] unconventional in his habits and joking, a prodigal spender on himself; he is portrayed in very unflattering terms in the 1115 chronicle Monodiae of Guibert of Nogent. He had Gerard of Quierzy murdered^[9] in the very cathedral of Laon.

His election as bishop was contested; he had been hurried into minor orders after the battle and made a canon of Rouen, but it was upheld by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Langres.^[10] He was murdered at Eastertide 1112, in the crypt of Laon Cathedral by citizens of Laon who had set up a commune in the city.^[11] Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary-historical value.^[12]