Peter of Lichfield

Peter
Bishop of Lichfield
Bishop of Chester
See Diocese of Lichfield
Diocese of Chester
Appointed 1072
Reign ended 1085
Predecessor Leofwin
Successor Robert de Limesey
Other posts possibly a royal clerk
Orders
Consecration after May 1072
Personal details
Died 1085
Buried Chester
Denomination Catholic

Peter (died 1085) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield. He moved the see from Lichfield to Chester in 1075.[1]

Peter had been a royal chaplain before being nominated to the see of Lichfield. Nothing else is known of his background, although presumably he was a Norman, as were most of King William I of England's episcopal appointments.[2] He may have been a royal clerk of King Edward the Confessor,[3] although one charter of 1065 which lists his name is a forgery.[4] He was the custodian of the see of Lincoln, before his elevation to the episcopate.[5] He was consecrated after May 1072 and died in 1085.[1] It is possible that it was Peter, and not Robert his successor, who pillaged the abbey of Coventry and was censured by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury.[6] Peter was buried at Chester.[5] The historian Katherine Keats-Rohan suggests that he was the uncle of Regenbald, a royal clerk under King Edward and King William.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
  2. ^ Powell and Wallis House of Lords in the Middle Ages p. 36
  3. ^ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 pp. 117–118
  4. ^ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 121
  5. ^ a b Cooke and Costambeys "Peter (d. 1085)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  6. ^ Barlow English Church 1066–1154 p. 62 footnote 52
  7. ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 351

References

  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9. 
  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5. 
  • Cooke, Alice M. (2004). "Peter (d. 1085)" (Subscription or UK public library membership required). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. revised by Marios Costambeys. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22011. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22011. Retrieved 13 January 2008. 
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  • Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-x. 
  • Powell, J. Enoch; Wallis, Keith (1968). The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A History of the English House of Lords to 1540. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 

Further reading

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Leofwin		 Bishop of Lichfield
1072–1075		 Succeeded by
Robert de Limesey
Preceded by
Leofwin		 Bishop of Chester
1075–1085		 Succeeded by
Robert de Limesey