Seffrid I, sometimes known as Seffrid Pelochin,
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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 5: Chichester: Bishops
' was a medieval
Bishop of Chichester
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.
Life
Seffrid was the son of Seffrid d'Escures and Guimordis, and was a half brother to
Ralph d'Escures
Ralph d'Escures (also known as RadulfEadmer. ''Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia''. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964.) (died 20 October 1122) was a medieval abbot of Séez ...
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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from 1114 to 1122.
[ He was a native of Escures, near ]Sées
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Geography
The commune is spread over an area of with a maximum altitude of and minimum of
It lies on the river Orne fr ...
, and his father was a landowner and sworn man of Roger of Montgomery.[Mayr-Harting "Introduction" ''Acta'' p. 5] He was a monk at Séez Abbey Séez may refer to:
*Séez, Savoie
*Sées, Orne
:*Roman Catholic Diocese of Séez
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in Sées
Sées () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. It is classed as a Petite Cité de Caractère.
Geography
The commune is spread over an area of with a maximum altitude of and minimum of
It lies on the river Orne fr ...
, France,[ and became ]abbot
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of Glastonbury Abbey
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The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It wa ...
in 1120.[Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' p. 51] He acted as an emissary for King Henry I of England
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at the papal curia in Rome.[Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 191] In 1123 he went to Rome with Anselm of St Saba
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as part of William de Corbeil
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the newly elected Archbishop of Canterbury
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's party. William was traveling to Rome to secure his pallium
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.[Knowles ''Monastic Order'' p. 409] Seffrid was nominated to the see of Chichester about February 1125 and consecrated on 12 April 1125[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 238] by William de Corbeil
William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil (21 November 1136) was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Very little is known of William's early life or his family, except that he was born at Corbeil, south-east of Paris, and that he had two brot ...
, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth
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.[ He was deprived of his see in 1145, and died sometime between 1150 and 1151.][ He was possibly deprived for homosexuality, and may have been buried at ]Glastonbury
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.[ Six genuine documents of his time as bishop survive, along with his profession of obedience. Four of these documents were grants to monasteries, one dealt with his cathedral chapter's canon's, and the last is a grant of land.][Mayr-Harting "Introduction" ''Acta'' p. 27]
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Anglo-Normans
Bishops of Chichester
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Abbots of Glastonbury
1150s deaths
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12th-century Christian abbots