Constitutions of Clarendon

Pont l'Évêque, Roger de (c.1115–1181) Archbishop of York References Oxford DNB article Frank Barlow, ‘Pont l'Évêque, Roge...

Roger, bishop of Worcester, was a cousin of king Henry II. He was son of    Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester the illegitimate son of Henry I, ...

In order to put an end to local and provincial corruption in 1170 King Henry II ordered a full investigation into the activities of the she...

AKA Guillaume de Blois , Guillaume aux Blanches Mains, William of the White Hands, or Guillaume de Champagne. Bishop of Chartres, 1165...

Four persons were particularly hated by Becket. Three of them were at some time or other excommunicated by him. All were in the service of H...

Geoffrey Ridel, archdeacon of Canterbury. Given the epithet The Archdiabolus. appointed by Henry to this post after Becket was forced to res...

Reginald Fitz Jocelin, named "The Lombard" ( Lombardus ) by Herbert of Bosham, was the son of Jocelin de Bohun, bishop of Salis...