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. William is the second named bishop recorded by the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century ''

Chronicle of Mann The ''Chronicles of the Kings of Mann and the Isles''
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''. According to this source, he was the successor to Roolwer, the first named bishop. The chronicle reveals that William served at his post during the reign of Gofraid Crobán, King of Dublin and the Isles. William's

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or French name may cast light on his origins, and may in turn reveal Gofraid Crobán's links with the wider

world. Indeed, such connections would seem to parallel those between the

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and the Archbishop of Canterbury, forged by Gofraid Crobán's contemporaries in Dublin, Toirdelbach Ua Briain, King of Munster and

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, King of Dublin. Whatever the case, William appears to have died in or before 1095, as the chronicle states that he was succeeded, during Godred's lifetime, by a Manxman named Hamond, son of "". Woolf (2003) p. 172; Watt (1994) p. 110; Anderson (1922) pp. 95–96 n. 1; Munch; Goss (1874a) pp. 114–115.

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