Alexander (bishop)

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Alexander (d. 1148), nephew of Roger of Salisbury. Alexander was bishop of Lincoln in 1123-1148, and a typical secular ecclesiastic of the middle ages, wealthy, proud, ambitious and ostentatious. He founded monasteries, built castles at Newark, Sleaford and Banbury, and restored his cathedral at Lincoln after the fire of 1145. He followed the policy of Roger, whose imprisonment he shared, and died after a visit to Pope Eugene III at Auxerre, early in 1148.

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