William de Turbeville
William de Turbeville | |
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Bishop of Norwich | |
Elected | either 1146 or early 1147 |
Term ended | January 1174 |
Predecessor | Everard |
Successor | John of Oxford |
Orders | |
Consecration | c. 1147 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1095 |
Died | 16 or 17 January 1174 Norwich, Norfolk |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
William de Turbeville (or William Turbe;[1] c. 1095 – January 1174) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.
Life
Turbeville was educated in the Benedictine priory of Norwich Cathedral. Here he also made religious profession, first as a teacher and later as prior. He first held the office of precentor of the Diocese of Norwich from about 1136, and was subsequently Prior of Norwich.[2]
Turbeville was present at the Easter synod of 1144 when Godwin Stuart alleged that his nephew, William of Norwich, a boy of about twelve years, had been murdered by the Norwich Jews during the preceding Holy Week.
When Turbeville became bishop in 1146 or early 1147[1] he propagated the cult of the "boy-martyr". On four occasions he had the boy's remains transferred to more honourable places, and in 1168 erected a chapel in his honour in Mousehold Wood, where the boy's body was said to have been found. He persuaded Thomas of Monmouth, a monk of Norwich priory, to write "The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich" about 1173, the only extant authority for the legend of William, which is now commonly discredited.
Turbeville attended the Council of Rheims in 1148.[3]
Turbeville died on 16 January 1174[1] or 17 January 1174.[4]
Citations
References
- British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
- British History Online Priors of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Haring, Nicholas (1966). "Notes on the Council and the Consistory of Rheims (1148)". Mediaeval Studies. XXVIII: 39–59. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306008.
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Preceded by Everard | Bishop of Norwich 1146–1174 | Succeeded by |
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- Bedwinus
- Northbertus
- Headulacus
- Æthelfrith
- Eanfrith
- Æthelwulf
- Alherdus
- Sybba
- Hunferthus
- Humbertus
- See interrupted
- Aethelweald
- Eadwulf
- Ælfric I
- Theodred I
- Theodred II
- Æthelstan
- Ælfgar
- Ælfwine
- Ælfric II
- Ælfric III
- Stigand
- Grimketel
- Stigand (again)
- Æthelmær
- Herfast
- see removed to Thetford
- Herfast
- William de Beaufeu
- Herbert de Losinga
- see removed to Norwich
- Herbert de Losinga
- Everard of Calne
- William de Turbeville
- John of Oxford
- John de Gray
- Pandulf Verraccio
- Thomas Blunville
- Simon of Elmham
- William de Raley
- Walter Suffield
- Simon Walton
- Roger Skerning
- William Middleton
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- Antony Bek
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- Edmund Scambler
- William Redman
- John Jegon
- John Overall
- Samuel Harsnett
- Francis White
- Richard Corbet
- Matthew Wren
- Richard Montagu
- Joseph Hall
- Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
- Edward Reynolds
- Anthony Sparrow
- William Lloyd
- John Moore
- Charles Trimnell
- Thomas Green
- John Leng
- William Baker
- Robert Butts
- Thomas Gooch
- Samuel Lisle
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- Edward Stanley
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- Percy Herbert
- Launcelot Fleming
- Maurice Wood
- Peter Nott
- Graham James
- Alan Winton (acting)
- Graham Usher
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "William of Turbeville". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.