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Godfrey of Bath

Godfrey of Bath

12th-century Bishop of Bath

Godfrey (died 1135) was a medieval Bishop of Bath.

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Life

Godfrey was a native of Leuven and was chaplain to Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of King Henry I of England. Godfrey served as chaplain both before and after her marriage to the king.[1] He came with her to England when she married Henry I.[2]

Godfrey was nominated 25 March 1123, and consecrated 26 August 1123[3] by Archbishop William de Corbeil of Canterbury at St. Paul's London.[1] During the last years of King Henry I's rule, Godfrey was often at the king's court and received a number of charters from the king.[4]

Godfrey died on 16 August 1135[3] and was buried in Bath Abbey near the north altar.[1]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Bishops
  2. [2]
    Barlow English Church p. 86
  3. [3]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 228
  4. [4]
    Hollister Henry I p. 472

References

  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Greenway, Diana E. (2001). "Bishops". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. Vol. 7: Bath and Wells. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  • Hollister, C. Warren (2001). Frost, Amanda (ed.). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.

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