Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Mints and Money in Norman England
- Literate Sociability and Historical Writing in Later Twelfth-Century England
- The Archbishopric of Canterbury and the So-called Introduction of Knight-Service into England
- Lastingham and the Architecture of the Benedictine Revival in Northumbria
- ‘Lanfranc of Bec’ and Berengar of Tours
- The Invention of the Manor in Norman England
- Herbert Losinga's Trip to Rome and the Bishopric of Bury St Edmunds
- Le récit de Geoffroi Malaterra ou la légitimation de Roger, Grand Comte de Sicile
- The Two Deaths of William Longsword: Wace, William of Malmesbury, and the Norman Past
- The Beasts Who Talk on the Bayeux Embroidery: The Fables Revisited
- The Piety of Earl Godwine
Herbert Losinga's Trip to Rome and the Bishopric of Bury St Edmunds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Mints and Money in Norman England
- Literate Sociability and Historical Writing in Later Twelfth-Century England
- The Archbishopric of Canterbury and the So-called Introduction of Knight-Service into England
- Lastingham and the Architecture of the Benedictine Revival in Northumbria
- ‘Lanfranc of Bec’ and Berengar of Tours
- The Invention of the Manor in Norman England
- Herbert Losinga's Trip to Rome and the Bishopric of Bury St Edmunds
- Le récit de Geoffroi Malaterra ou la légitimation de Roger, Grand Comte de Sicile
- The Two Deaths of William Longsword: Wace, William of Malmesbury, and the Norman Past
- The Beasts Who Talk on the Bayeux Embroidery: The Fables Revisited
- The Piety of Earl Godwine
Summary
Scholars of ecclesiastical politics in the reign of William Rufus know that, in his thirteen years on the throne, he had major disagreements with three of his bishops. In 1088–91, he clashed with William of Saint-Calais, bishop of Durham from 1080 to 1096. In February 1094, he fell out with Herbert Losinga, bishop of Thetford since 1091, and finally, at about that time, he also fell to quarrelling with Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury. Fortunately, two of the conflicts were described in detail. We therefore know that the bishop of Durham behaved suspiciously during the rebellion of 1088 by ignoring the king's summons, and that Rufus put him on trial in November as a disobedient baron who had failed to join his army and supply him with soldiers. The bishop rejected his trial, claiming a cleric's right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court; and a sympathizer reported the trial in a casebook with a forensic defence of the bishop's position. We also know the details of Rufus's argument with Anselm, whom the king appointed to Canterbury in March 1093. The developing problem here was that Anselm needed a pallium from the pope if his acts as archbishop were to carry authority; but the papal schism forced a choice between two popes, and whereas Anselm had already chosen Urban II when he was an abbot in Normandy, Rufus cultivated a policy of neutrality which he imposed on his clergy.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 34Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011, pp. 151 - 168Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012