Hugh of Beaulieu (died 1223) was a medieval English Bishop of Carlisle.
Life Hugh was the first abbot of the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey, which had originally been located at Faringdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), before he was selected for the see of Carlisle.Doubleday and Page History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2: Houses of Cistercian Monks: Abbey of Beaulieu In 1214 and 1216, Hugh was censured by the Chapter General of the Cistercian Order for the ostentation of his lifestyle.Moorman Church Life p. 276 He was accused of eating off silver plate, keeping a guard dog in his bedroom with a silver chain, and of too much revelry with earls and knights.Knowles Monastic Order p. 659 While abbot, he attended the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.Moorman Church Life p. 237 He had been deposed as abbot before he was chosen as bishop,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Carlisle: Bishops at some point shortly before 1218. He was elected about 1 August 1218, and consecrated on 24 February 1219.Fryde. et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 235 He was not the choice of the cathedral chapter of Carlisle, and his election was forced on them.Moorman Church Life p. 162 He died on 4 June 1223.
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