Hugh Foliot
Hugh Foliot | |
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Archdeacon of Shropshire | |
Orders | |
Consecration | 27 October 1219 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1155 |
Died | 7 August 1234 |
Buried | Hereford Cathedral |
Denomination | Catholic |
Hugh Foliot (
Early life
Foliot possibly was the son of Roger Foliot and his wife Rohese.
After Foliot's failed candidacy as bishop, in February 1216 John appointed him to the benefice of Colwall in Herefordshire, the king having the ability to make the appointment because Giles de Braose, the Bishop of Hereford, who would normally have made the appointment, had recently died. Also from this time comes Foliot's patronage of Robert Grosseteste, the theologian and future Bishop of Lincoln.[1]
Bishop
Foliot had been one of three members of the cathedral chapter from Hereford sent to King Henry III's court to secure permission for the chapter to hold an election in 1219[1] Foliot was elected to the see of Hereford in June 1219 and consecrated on 27 October 1219[4] along with William de Goldcliff, the Bishop of Llandaff, at Canterbury.[2]
The new bishop accompanied Peter des Roches, the Bishop of Winchester, on a pilgrimage in 1221.[5] Because des Roches travelled to Spain to the shrine of St James at Compostela,[6] and it is known that Foliot accompanied him, the statement by a medieval chronicler from Dunstable that Foliot's destination was not certain, being either Rome or Compostela, should be discounted.[1]
Foliot spent most of his tenure of office in his diocese, only rarely attending the royal court or being assigned governmental duties. On 30 December 1223, Foliot assumed one of those duties, when he took custody of
Foliot died 7 August 1234,[4] after an illness that began in the spring. He was buried in Hereford Cathedral, where his tomb survives. Foliot appointed his younger brother Thomas to offices in the diocese, first as precentor in the 1220s and then around 1230 as treasurer of the cathedral chapter.[1]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Barrow "Foliot, Hugh" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b Barrow Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 8: Bishops
- ^ Barrow Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 8: Archdeacons of Shropshire
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 250
- ^ Vincent Peter des Roches p. 166
- ^ Vincent Peter des Roches p. 199
- ^ Prestwich Plantagenet England pp. 84–85
References
- Barrow, J. S. (2002). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 8: Hereford: Archdeacons of Shropshire. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
- Barrow, J. S. (2002). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 8: Hereford: Bishops. Institute of Historical Research. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
- Barrow, Julia (2007). "Foliot, Hugh (d. 1234)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (October 2007 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95044. Retrieved 17 February 2009. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- 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.
- ISBN 978-0-19-922687-0.
- Vincent, Nicholas (2002). Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics 1205–1238 (Reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52215-3.