Peter of Lichfield

Peter
Bishop of Chester
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Province	Canterbury
Appointed	1072
Term ended	1085
Successor	Robert de Limesey
Other posts	possibly a royal clerk
Orders
Consecration	after May 1072
Personal details
Died	1085
Buried	Chester
Nationality	English
Previous post	Bishop of Lichfield

Peter (died 1085) was a medieval cleric. He became Bishop of Lichfield in 1072, then his title changed to Bishop of Chester when the see was moved 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 his successor Robert de Limesey, who pillaged the abbey of Coventry and was censured by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury.^[6] Peter was buried at Chester.^[5] The historian Katharine Keats-Rohan suggests that he was the uncle of Regenbald, a royal clerk under King Edward and King William.^[7]

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1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
↑ Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 36
↑ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 pp. 117–118
↑ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 121
1 2 Cooke and Costambeys "Peter" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Barlow English Church 1066–1154 p. 62 footnote 52
↑ 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. Costambeys, Marios (revisor). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/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. OCLC 463626.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Leofwin	Bishop of Lichfield 1072–1075	See moved to Chester
New title	Bishop of Chester 1075–1085	Succeeded by Robert de Limesey

Bishops of Lichfield (including precursor offices)

Mercia	Diuma Ceollach Trumhere Jaruman

Mercians & Lindisfaras	Chad

Lichfield	Winfrith Seaxwulf Headda Aldwine Witta Hemele Cuthfrith Berhthun Hygeberht (Archbishop of Lichfield) Ealdwulf Herewine Æthelwold Hunberght Cynefrith Tunberht Wulfsige Burgheard Eadberht Wulfred Wilferth Ælfwine Wulfgar Cynesige Wynsige Elphege Godwin Leofgar Brihtmær Wulfsige Leofwin Peter

Chester	Peter Robert de Limesey

Coventry	Robert de Limesey Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche Gerard la Pucelle Hugh Nonant Geoffrey de Muschamp William de Cornhill Alexander de Stavenby

Coventry & Lichfield	Alexander de Stavenby Hugh de Pateshull Roger Weseham Roger de Meyland Walter Langton Roger Northburgh Robert de Stretton Walter Skirlaw Richard le Scrope John Burghill John Catterick James Cary William Heyworth William Booth Nicholas Close Reginald Boulers John Hales William Smyth John Arundel Geoffrey Blythe Rowland Lee

Lichfield & Coventry	Rowland Lee Richard Sampson Ralph Baines Thomas Bentham William Overton George Abbot Richard Neile John Overall Thomas Morton Robert Wright Accepted Frewen John Hacket Thomas Wood William Lloyd John Hough Edward Chandler Richard Smalbroke The Hon Frederick Cornwallis John Egerton Brownlow North Richard Hurd The Hon James Cornwallis The Hon Henry Ryder Samuel Butler

Lichfield	Samuel Butler James Bowstead John Lonsdale George Selwyn William Maclagan The Hon Augustus Legge John Kempthorne Edward Woods Stretton Reeve Kenneth Skelton Keith Sutton Jonathan Gledhill

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Peter of Lichfield

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