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Everard of Calne

 
Wikipedia: Everard of Calne
Everard
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Norwich
Title Bishop of Norwich
Period in office 1121–1145
Predecessor Herbert de Losinga
Successor William de Turbeville
Personal
Date of death 1146

Everard (or Everard of Calne) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.

Life

He was from Calne in Wiltshire. He was a royal chaplain and held prebends in the diocese of London as well as an archdeacon in the diocese of Salisbury.[1]

He was consecrated on 12 June 1121. He resigned the see in 1145 to be a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Fontenay in the Cote-d'Or in France.[1]

He died on 12 October probably in 1146.[2] He was buried at Fontenay before 21 September 1147.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
  2. ^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 242

References

Religious titles
Preceded by
Herbert de Losinga
Bishop of Norwich
1121–1146
Succeeded by
William de Turbeville



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