ended predecessor successor death_date title elected article_title name
1151 geoffrey de gorham robert de gorron 6 july 1151 abbot of st albans 1146 ralph gubion
 ralph gubion
ralph gubion

ralph gubion -lrb- died 6 july 1151 -rrb- was a native englishman and abbot of st albans abbey from 1146 to 1151 .
gubion was a native of england , although his surname indicates that his family was likely from normandy or brittany .
gubion was a monk at st albans as well as being a clerk in the household of alexander , bishop of lincoln .
through the intercession of alexander , gubion was allowed to be simultaneously a monk at st albans as well as continuing as alexander 's personal chaplain .
gubino had also served as alexander 's treasurer .
he occurs in a charter of the cathedral of lincoln that is probably dated to the later half of 1147 , but this can not be taken as sure evidence that he was a canon of the lincoln cathedral chapter .
on 8 may 1146 he was elected abbot , and held office until 1150 , when he became ill and handed a number of his duties to the prior .
he died on 6 july 1151 .
while abbot , he was alleged to have abused and tormented the prior of st albans , alcuin ; eventually alcuin transferred to westminster abbey to escape .
gubion appointed robert de gorron , who was the nephew of gubion 's predecessor -- geoffrey de gorham -- as abbot , as the new prior .
gubion also set the finances of the abbey on a firm footing , and obtained favourable privileges for the abbey from pope eugenius iii .
gubion was succeeded by the prior , robert de gorron .
gubion was noted as a great lover of books .
