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��Alfwordus? 3 or Alwoudcs" 1 , abbot of Evesham? *. Ho died 25th July io44 : '.
Robert the Norman or Rotbert, eibbot of Jttmiiges 76 , was consecrated bishop of London in 1044, and trans- lated to Canterbury in 1050, on the death of arch- bishop Eadsige 77 .
Spearhafoc, abbot of Abingdon, bad the sec of London conferred upon him by king Edward the Confessor " s ; but the archbishop of Canterbury refusing to conse- crate him 79 , the see was conferred upon
William, tht King's chaplain, who was consecrated in io-')i s ". lie was driven, with the other foreign pre- lates, from England in the following year 81 , and Sti- gand administered to the see of London during his exile; 1 nit bishop William. " propter suam bonitatem parvo post tempore revocatus, in suum episcopatum recipitur' He was present at the council of Lon- don holden in 1075, and died shortly afterwards 83 ,
and was buried in St. Paul's cathedral.
1075 Hugh di Ohivai i i . a Norman, succeeded bishop Wil- 9 Will. I. Uaminthe see of London in 1075, and made his pro- fession to Lanfranc. He died of the leprosy sl J2th
dan. IC84-", " .
��"-' Flor. Wigorn.
to Malmes. Pontif.. Cliron. Mailr., <t Hoved.
" 4 Lib. Ramsey, c. 93.
Flor. Wigorn., Bad. de li- ceto ; ^;th July 1044, Hist Eveah.; -\~,th July 104-;. Annal. Petrob. ; a6tb July 1046, Keg. Raines.
" 6 Flor. Wigorn., Malmes., et ( 'hron. Mailr.
" Flor. Wigorn.
r "" Some copies of the Saxon Chronicle fix this event in 104S. and others in io,',o ami 1051. His name is also written Sparha- hafoe. Sperhafoc. Superafoc and Sperhavoee.
79 " Tunc Superafocus venit ad archiepiscopnin. at benedice-
��retnr ad episcopatnm Londonia?. Cui archiepiacopus constanterre- Bpondit, dicens; Apoatolicua mi- ni interdixit, ne te consecrarem ; nee faciam."
Hl Sax. ('hron. et Flor. Wigorn.
Bl Sax. ( 'hron.
Flor. Wigorn. ad ann.10-,2.
83 Concil. Angl. torn. i. p. 363. Godwin and others erroneously place bishop William's death in 1070.
-'In the hope of being cured of the leprosy he submitted to a painful operation, hut without any benefit. Malmes. Pontif. lib. ii.
&> Godwin ; but in the annals of Winton his death is recorded in 1084.
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