Geoffrey de Muschamp (died 6 October 1208) was a medieval
Bishop of Coventry.
Muschamp began his ecclesiastical career under
Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, who appears to have used his office of chancellor to promote Muschamp to the
archdeaconry of Cleveland after the death of King
Henry II of England
Henry II () was King of England
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. This irregular use of the office came to light five years later, and Muschamp had to pay a fine of £100 to King
Richard I of England
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to retain the office. Muschamp opposed his former employer in the archbishop's dispute with the
cathedral chapter of
York Minster.
[Franklin "Muschamp, Geoffrey de" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''] He was consecrated on 21 June 1198
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 253] at Canterbury by
Hubert Walter,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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.
[ Around 1200 he built Eccleshall Castle as a secure central residence for the bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield.
Muschamp died on 6 October 1208][ and was buried in Lichfield Cathedral.][
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1208 deaths
Year of birth unknown
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Archdeacons of Cleveland
Bishops of Lichfield
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