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Alexander of Lincoln, the Glossary

Index Alexander of Lincoln

Alexander of Lincoln (died February 1148) was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln, a member of an important administrative and ecclesiastical family.[1]

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  1. 83 relations: Abbotsbury Abbey, Adelelm (Dean of Lincoln), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anselm of Laon, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archdeacon, Archdeacon of Buckingham, Archdeacon of Sarum, Arrouaise Abbey, Banbury Castle, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bishop, Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Winchester, Canon law, Canterbury, Christina of Markyate, Cistercians, Collegiate church, Confraternity book, David I of Scotland, Dean of Lincoln, Diocese of Lincoln, Diocese of Salisbury, Dorchester on Thames, Earl of Chester, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Lincoln, Empress Matilda, Episcopal see, Excommunication, Fealty, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Gervase of Canterbury, Gesta Stephani, Gilbert of Sempringham, Gilbertine Order, Haverholme Priory, Henry I of England, Henry of Blois, Henry of Huntingdon, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor, John of Crema, Laon, Legatine council, Leprosy, Lincoln, England, ... Expand index (33 more) »

  2. 1148 deaths
  3. People from Blois

Abbotsbury Abbey

Abbotsbury Abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter, was a Benedictine monastery in the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England.

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Adelelm (Dean of Lincoln)

Adelelm (died 25 February 1179) also known as Adelmus or Ascelinus, was Treasurer of England and nephew of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anselm of Laon

Anselm of Laon (Anselmus; 1117), properly Ansel (Ansellus), was a French theologian and founder of a school of scholars who helped to pioneer biblical hermeneutics.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop.

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Archdeacon of Buckingham

The Archdeacon of Buckingham is the senior ecclesiastical officer in charge of the Church of England in Buckinghamshire.

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Archdeacon of Sarum

The Archdeacon of Sarum is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury, England.

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Arrouaise Abbey

The Abbey of Arrouaise in northern France was the centre of a form of the canonical life known as the Arrouaisian Order, which was popular among the founders of canonries during the decade of the 1130s.

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Banbury Castle

Banbury Castle was a medieval castle that stood near the centre of the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

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Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Bishop of Lincoln

The Bishop of Lincoln is the ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury. Alexander of Lincoln and bishop of Lincoln are bishops of Lincoln.

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Bishop of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishop of Winchester

The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England.

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Canon law

Canon law (from κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.

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Christina of Markyate

Christina of Markyate was born with the name Theodora in Huntingdon, England, about 1096–1098 and died about 1155.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Collegiate church

In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons, a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, headed by a dignitary bearing a title which may vary, such as dean or provost.

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Confraternity book

A confraternity book (Verbrüderungsbuch, liber confraternitatum or confraternitatis), also called a liber memorialis (memorial book) or liber vitae (book of life), is a medieval register of the names of people who had entered into a state of spiritual brotherhood (confraternity) with a church or monastery in some way, often by visiting it in the capacity of a pilgrim.

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David I of Scotland

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153.

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Dean of Lincoln

The Dean of Lincoln is the head of the Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral in the city of Lincoln, England in the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln.

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Diocese of Lincoln

The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England.

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Diocese of Salisbury

The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury.

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Dorchester on Thames

Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about northwest of Wallingford and southeast of Oxford.

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Earl of Chester

The Earldom of Chester was one of the most powerful earldoms in medieval England, extending principally over the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire.

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Earl of Leicester

Earl of Leicester is a title that has been created seven times.

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Earl of Lincoln

Earl of Lincoln is a title that has been created eight times in the Peerage of England, most recently in 1572.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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Episcopal see

An episcopal see is, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.

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Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus; Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) was a Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. Alexander of Lincoln and Geoffrey of Monmouth are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops.

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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Fair (le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144.

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Gervase of Canterbury

Gervase of Canterbury (Latin: Gervasus Cantuariensis or Gervasius Dorobornensis) (c. 1141 – c. 1210) was an English chronicler.

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Gesta Stephani

Deeds of King Stephen or Acts of Stephen or Gesta Regis Stephani is a mid-12th-century English history by an anonymous author about King Stephen of England and his struggles with his cousin, Empress Matilda, also known as the "Empress Maud".

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Gilbert of Sempringham

Gilbert of Sempringham (c. 1085 – 4 February 1189) the founder of the Gilbertine Order, was the only Medieval Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the Abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him in organising a group of women who wanted to live as nuns, living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148.

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Gilbertine Order

The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest.

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Haverholme Priory

Haverholme Priory was a monastery in Lincolnshire, England. Alexander of Lincoln and Haverholme Priory are history of Lincolnshire.

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Henry I of England

Henry I (– 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.

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Henry of Blois

Henry of Blois (c. 1096 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death. Alexander of Lincoln and Henry of Blois are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops.

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Henry of Huntingdon

Henry of Huntingdon (Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".

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Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry V (Heinrich V.; probably 11 August 1081 or 1086 – 23 May 1125) was King of Germany (from 1099 to 1125) and Holy Roman Emperor (from 1111 to 1125), as the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum, Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (Imperator Germanorum, Roman-German emperor), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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John of Crema

John of Crema (Giovanni da Crema) (died before 27 January 1137) was an Italian papal legate and cardinal.

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Laon

Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Legatine council

A legatine council or legatine synod is an ecclesiastical council or synod that is presided over by a papal legate.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and district in Lincolnshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Louth Park Abbey

Louth Park Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Lincolnshire, England.

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Malmesbury Abbey

Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

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Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire

Newark Castle, in Newark-on-Trent in the English county of Nottinghamshire, was founded in the mid 12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln.

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Newsham Abbey

Newsham Abbey was an abbey in Newsham, a small hamlet north of Brocklesby village in Lincolnshire, England, and one of nine within the historical county.

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Nigel (bishop of Ely)

Nigel (1169) was an Anglo-Norman clergyman and administrator who served as Bishop of Ely from 1133 to 1169. Alexander of Lincoln and Nigel (bishop of Ely) are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norman

Old Norman, also called Old Northern French or Old Norman French (Ancien Normaund), was one of many varieties of the langues d'oïl native to northern France.

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Peterborough Chronicle

The Peterborough Chronicle (also called the Laud manuscript and the E manuscript) is a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles originally maintained by the monks of Peterborough Abbey, now in Cambridgeshire.

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Pope Innocent II

Pope Innocent II (Innocentius II; died 24 September 1143), born Gregorio Papareschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 February 1130 to his death in 1143.

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Prebendary

A prebendary is a member of the Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church.

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Ralph Gubion

Ralph Gubion (died 6 July 1151) was a native Englishman and abbot of St Albans Abbey from 1146 to 1151.

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Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester

Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon), 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), was an Anglo-Norman baron who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester.

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Richard FitzNeal

Richard FitzNeal (1130 – 10 September 1198) was a churchman and bureaucrat in the service of Henry II of England. Alexander of Lincoln and Richard FitzNeal are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops.

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Robert Bloet

Robert Bloet (sometimes Robert Bloett;Knowles Monastic Order p. 132 died 1123) was Bishop of Lincoln 1093–1123 and Chancellor of England. Alexander of Lincoln and Robert Bloet are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops and bishops of Lincoln.

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.

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Robert de Chesney

Robert de Chesney (died December 1166) was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln. Alexander of Lincoln and Robert de Chesney are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops and bishops of Lincoln.

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Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester

Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147David Crouch, 'Robert, first earl of Gloucester (b. c. 1090, d. 1147)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul) was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England.

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Roger le Poer

Roger le Poer was a medieval Lord Chancellor from 1135 until 1139 for King Stephen of England.

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Roger of Salisbury

Roger of Salisbury (died 1139), was a Norman medieval bishop of Salisbury and the seventh Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England. Alexander of Lincoln and Roger of Salisbury are 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops.

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Sleaford Castle

Sleaford Castle is a medieval castle in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.

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St Albans Cathedral

St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England.

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Stephen, King of England

Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154.

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Synod

A synod is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.

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Thame

Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of Aylesbury.

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The Anarchy

The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.

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Theobald II, Count of Champagne

Theobald the Great (1090–1152) was count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV from 1102 and was Count of Champagne and of Brie as Theobald II from 1125.

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Theobald of Bec

Theobald of Bec (c. 1090 – 18 April 1161) was a Norman archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161.

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William Adelin

William Ætheling (5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling) was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir apparent to the English throne.

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William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel

William d'Aubigny (c. 1109Unknown), also known as William d'Albini, William de Albini and William de Albini II, was an English nobleman.

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William de Corbeil

William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil (21 November 1136) was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury.

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William of Newburgh

William of Newburgh or Newbury (Guilelmus Neubrigensis, Wilhelmus Neubrigensis, or Willelmus de Novoburgo. 1136 – 1198), also known as William Parvus, was a 12th-century English historian and Augustinian canon of Anglo-Saxon descent from Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire.

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William Stubbs

William Stubbs (21 June 182522 April 1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop.

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See also

1148 deaths

People from Blois

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Lincoln

Also known as Alexander (bishop), Alexander Lincolniensis, Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop Alexander of Lincoln.

, Louth Park Abbey, Malmesbury Abbey, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, Newsham Abbey, Nigel (bishop of Ely), Old English, Old Norman, Peterborough Chronicle, Pope Innocent II, Prebendary, Ralph Gubion, Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, Richard FitzNeal, Robert Bloet, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Robert de Chesney, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Roger le Poer, Roger of Salisbury, Sleaford Castle, St Albans Cathedral, Stephen, King of England, Synod, Thame, The Anarchy, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Theobald II, Count of Champagne, Theobald of Bec, William Adelin, William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, William de Corbeil, William of Newburgh, William Stubbs.