Brewer's: Beauclerc

[good scholar ]. Applied to Henry I., who had clerk-like accomplishments, very rare in the times in which he lived (1068, 1100-1135).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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