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��annulled by the court of Rome 93 . The see cone quently remained vacant upwards of seven years, and ivas committed by the Pope, with the King's consent, to the custody of Henry bishop of Winchester 94 . At length the empr< as Maude tferred the bishopric
it] < r i
1141 Robert di Sigillo, a monk of Reading^ and archdeacon
1 Staph of London, who * - elected l>\ the canons, and con- secrated in 1141 95 ; bul when he had governed the see a short time he was captured in his house al I'ul- li.im bj Geoffrey de Mandeville, and committed as a prisoner to the Tow< r I [e died <>!' 1 1 i 1 1 lt poisoned grapes in the year 1151
11^2 Richard di Bj - <t Belmeis 98 , archdeacon oj
17 Staph. Middlesex 1 nephew of the bishop of the same name, mentioned above, was consecrated bishop of London ii Sept. 1 i; ( - . He died 4th May 1 162 '.
1 \'>] (in hi 1:1 Foliot, bishop of Hereford^ was translated to 'oHen. 11 1.,, n, Inn 24th March 1 1 , and enthroned 28th April
following . II- died 18th Feb. (\ii ('al. Mart.) 1 i>
��" Quoniam ritra conscien- 11 mi it assi osum decani 1 fuit, cujufl est ulliiiuin in eli- gendo pastore buo de jure pri- iniim voii' habere."
\lili.( 'limn. K ul. di I ticeto.
Flor. Wigorn. continual,
C at -' I! ibertUB Lon-
don episcopus vi Nbn. Jul. apud
Pulham a Galfrido d M inde-
villa. Chron. Iferton.
" Anno m 1.1. Robertas de Si^rillo episcopns LondoniensU m episcopalibos otluiis sancte conversatus inter rericiendum i_ r ustans avaa vencno illitas ohiit. Sim. Dnnelm. continuat. ad aim.
88 De Mi'lm ;-. Dicet., Ymag. Hist.; 1 )i- Beaavois, Mat.Westm.
99 Matt. Westm. p. ,307. Pre- sbyter ordinatua est aTheobaldo
��archiepiscopo apud Otteford, Sept. 20, [15a. Episcopue ab eodem apud ( lantuariam 1 cratus Sept. - ,s . 1 [52. < )mni- btu fere AVngliaB episcopia pras- sentibus, excepto Wintoniensi Henrico, <|ui ^-cri] i~.it archiepi- Bcopo. quod optima in eum con- Bensit. Rot. 2. in Archiv. ( 'an- tuar.
1 Ymag. Ili-t. Dicet. col. 533.
- Gervas. Chron. col. 1384. He was the first bishop that was canonical!)* translated from one see to another.
Ymag. Hist, de Diceto, 00L
535- 4 1187. Gilb. Foliot epis. Lond.
obiit \ii Ciil. Martii, vixit in epi-
scopatu annis 23, mens. 10, die-
bus 17. Reg. de C'umba.
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