biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1009–95)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Long Itchington, Warwickshire, C England, UK. Educated at the abbey of Peterborough, he became a monk, subsequently prior, at Worcester, and was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1062. At the Norman Conquest of 1066 he made submission to William I, and was the only Englishman left in his see. Later he supported William II. He ended the slave-trade practised by merchants in Bristol, helped to compile the Domesday Book, and may have written part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. He was canonized in 1203; feast day 19 January. |
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