The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
BY FRANCES MARSHALL.

In the DAYS when legend took th'
place of history aud half imaginar,
mvths the place of men md women OF
flesh and blood there lived the Teu
tonic ancestor of all the Gilberts, Gil
pins, Gils, Gibbons and Gipps of Eng
land and America; of the Gnilberts
Giseberts and Ghilebers of France, oi
the Gnllbertos of Italy, the Gysberts OF
Holland, the Giselberts. Giesberts, Gil
berts and Giseprechts of Germany.
This hero was Ghiselcr, or Giselhar
who is told about in the great German
cuic the NibelunGen Lied which .;
founded on legends rs old as the Ger
mans themselves, He was the brother
q: Kricmhild who married the hero OF
the poem. Siegfricd Kriemhild, who
seems to have been woman of rather
strong mind, had mild affection FOL
hor brother Ghseler. for when she
killed some Of her other brothers, She
s;,ared his life. Later, however, ht
v-as killed in a fierce combat with one
re She followers Of the great Dietrich
CT Bern.
~ later DAYS most OF the real men
of the namc--the saints and scientists
monks and warriors. writer's. artIsts
aud statesmen who have made 1T IA
,iniv rights. and accepted success or
deTpnt with az good grace. as did the
don~hty old Teutonic fighter.
Like tlic first historic bearers oil
"any another old Teutonic name, the
first historic Gilbe.is were men who
were working to suppress the old beliefs
and 20 establish in their stead the new
teachings of the Christian church.
One of these was Gilbert de Ia Poirce,
who was born in France, at PoItlers,
about the year 1910. Ue was one OF
the most noted of the early schoolmen.
and in l142 was made bishop Of Poit-
iers He died twelve years later. leav-
ing a goo,iy number of works on relig-
iop as a monument TO his energy and
ability. Another early clIurchman OF
enc name was Gilbert of Moray, bishop
Of Carthness, who died in l243, aud
who was the last Scotchman enrolled
in the calendar Of saints,
Saint Gilbert. Lord Of Scmpringhan,
who lived in the twelfth century in
England, was perhaps the most impor'
tant of these carly Gilberts Of the
church IA father was a wealthy Nor
man. who had gone TO England with
W;liiam the CoDqueror. Gilbert was
born n 1851. in Sempringbam, Lincoln
shir.:. apd as he was an ungainly lad,
and seemed ilIsuitcd to the life of a
warrior, he was looked upon with con-
Tempt BY his family. Nothing daunted.
!rc,,;ai pursuits lie vas fond of study,
and .lfler gaining a goo1 education went
10 France, where mt became teacher
wish q reputation fcr great learning.
NE;lc lie was still young man hc re-
turned home TO instruct the boys and
girls of his. own neighborhood.
Better pleased with a son who
showed promise of being one of the
scholars of the day than he had been
~, rlyvr-~ ~rrI lr
little taste for arms, Gilbert's father
eave him two churches, and soon after
that the young man founded the order
of the Gilbertines in England. The
monks of the order numbered seven
hundred. and the sisters twice as many
when Gilbert died. in 1889. For sew.
eral centuries the Gilbertines continued
to flourish, but in the reign of Henry
VIII, they were suppressed.
Another early Gilbert, who though
not a ehurchman, did much for the
worlds betterment, was Gilbert the
Englishman. who lived in the thirteenth
century. He was the first sensible
writer Oh medicine in England. and ex
posed the superstitions then in vogue
and adopted and tried to establish q
rational system of medicine.
In 1859. almost four hundred years
after the death of Gilbert Of Sempring
ham. another big English churchman
Gilbert, Sheldon, was born. Because he
was SO learned, grave and prudent, it
was said of him that he WAS "born
and bred Archbishop of Canterbury u
At any rate, Charles made him arch
bishop after the restoration. in recog.
milton of his loyalty. for Sheldon had
held out against Cromwell and had
suffered imprisonment at the hands of
the Protector