Samson (bishop of Worcester)
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Samson (also Sampson; died 5 May 1112) was a medieval English clergyman who was Bishop of Worcester from 1096 to 1112.
Life
Samson was a royal chaplain and a
diocese of Bayeux.[1]
In the St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton and considerable properties in southern Staffordshire, most of which he sublet to either the canons of St Peter's or to other clergy.[citation needed]
Hoel, was much worthier, based on his humble and pious nature. Bates writes “Since Samson did eventually become a bishop, succeeding Wulfstan at Worcester in 1095, he was probably being disingenuous.”[2]
In 1096 Samson was elected
Richard
, who was bishop of Bayeux from 1135 to 1142.
It has been suggested that Samson may possibly have been the scribe who oversaw the compilation of Domesday BookV. H. Galbraith.[5]
Samson died on 5 May 1112.[6]
Citations
- ^ a b British History Online Bishops of Worcester accessed on 3 November 2007
- ISBN 978-0-300-11875-9.
- ^ Spear "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy" Journal of British Studies p. 5
- ^ Chaplais "William of Saint-Calais" Domesday Studies pp. 68–70
- ^ Clanchy From Memory to Written Record p. 102
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 278
References
- British History Online Bishops of Worcester accessed on 3 November 2007
- ISBN 0-85115-477-8.
- Clanchy, C. T. (1993). From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307 (Second ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-16857-7.
- 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.
- Spear, David S. (1982). "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy, 1066–1204". S2CID 153511298.
Further reading
- JSTOR 559525.