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2. Married1 men among the English higher Clergy, 1066–1200

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

C. N. L. Brooke
C. N. L. Brooke
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Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , 1956 , pp. 187 - 188
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2 The Textus Roffensis contains several other cases of respectably married priests, but none definitely of the higher clergy. We should probably add to this list Erchemer, dean of Hereford (occurs c. 1107–15, Balliol College, MS. 271, f. 93 V.), who seems to have been father to Ranulph son of Erchemer, canon of Hereford. Ranulph occurs as canon in the 1140's (Round, J. H., Calendar of Documents preserved in France (London, 1899)Google Scholar, no. 1142; Capes, W. W., Charters and Records of Hereford Cathedral (Hereford, 1908), p. 12)Google Scholar and was the father of another Ranulph, also a canon of Hereford (cf. ibid. pp. 24, 32).

3 I have excluded rural deans from this list, since they were properly of the lower clergy: for a good example of a rural dean who was also a family man in the mid-twelfth century, see Cartulary of Darley Abbey, ed. Darlington, R. R., I (Kendal, 1945), pp. xxxv ff.Google Scholar