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ALDRED, or EALDRED (d. 1069)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALDRED, or EALDRED (d. 1069)  , See also:English ecclesiastic, became See also:abbot of See also:Tavistock about 1027, 1044 was made See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, and in ro6o See also:archbishop of See also:York . He had considerable See also:influence over See also:King See also:Edward the See also:Confessor, and as his interests were See also:secular rather than religious he took a prominent See also:part in affairs of See also:state, and in 1046 led an unsuccessful expedition against the Welsh . In 1050 he was largely instrumental in restoring Sweyn, the son of See also:Earl See also:Godwin, to his earldom, and about the same See also:time went to See also:Rome " on the king's errand." In 1054 he was sent to the See also:emperor See also:Henry III. to obtain that monarch's influence in securing the return to See also:England of Edward, son of See also:Edmund Ironside, who was in See also:Hungary with King See also:Andrew I . In this See also:mission he was successful and obtained some insight into the working of the See also:German See also:church during a stay of a, See also:year with See also:Hermann II., archbishop of See also:Cologne . After his return to England he took See also:charge of the See also:sees of See also:Hereford and Ramsbury, although not appointed to these bishoprics; and in io58 made a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Jerusalem, being the first English bishop to take this See also:journey . Having previously given up Hereford and Ramsbury, See also:Aldred was elected archbishop of York in ro6o, and in ro6r he proceeded to Rome to receive the See also:pallium . On his arrival there, however, various charges were brought against him by a See also:synod, and See also:Pope See also:Nicholas II. not only refused his See also:request but degraded him from the episcopate . The See also:sentence was, however, subsequently reversed, and Aldred received the pallium and was restored to his former station . It is stated by See also:Florence of Worcester that Aldred crowned King Harold II. in ro66, although the See also:Norman authorities mention See also:Stigand as the officiating See also:prelate . After the See also:battle of See also:Hastings Aldred joined the party who sought to bestow the See also:throne upon See also:Edgar the See also:IEtheling, but when these efforts appeared hopeless he was among those who submitted to See also:William the Conqueror at See also:Berkhampstead . Selected to See also:crown the new king he performed the ceremony on See also:Christmas See also:Day ro66, and in ro68 performed the same See also:office at the See also:coronation of See also:Matilda, the Conqueror's wife . But though often,at See also:court, he seems to have been no sympathiser with Norman oppression, and is even said to have bearded the king himself .

He died at York on the r r th of See also:

September 1069 and was buried in his own See also:cathedral . Aldred did much for the restoration of discipline in the monasteries and churches under his authority, and was liberal in his gifts for ecclesiastical purposes . He built the monastic church of St See also:Peter at See also:Gloucester, and rebuilt a large part of that of St See also:John at See also:Beverley . At his instigation, Folcard, a See also:monk of See also:Canterbury, wrote the See also:Life of St John of Beverley . See The Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, edited by C . Plummer (See also:Oxford, 1892-1899); Florence of Worcester, Chronicon ex Chronicis, edited by B . See also:Thorpe (See also:London, x848-1849); William of See also:Malmesbury, Deof the popular ballad A soldier and a sailor, A See also:tinker and a tailor, &c . Another specimen of his wit is furnished by the following epigrarn of the five reasons for drinking: Si bene quid memini, causae sunt quinque bibendi; Hospitis adventus, pr¢esens sitis atque futura, See also:Aut vini bonitos, aut quaelibet alters causa . The See also:translation runs: If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink:-- See also:Good See also:wine; a friend; because I'm dry'; Or lest I sho}ild be by and by; Or—any other See also:reason why .

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