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AYMER, or 1ETHELMAR, OF VALENCE (d. 1...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AYMER, or 1ETHELMAR, OF See also:VALENCE (d. 126o)  , See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, was a See also:half-See also:brother of See also:Henry III . His See also:mother was Isabelle of See also:Angouleme, the second wife of See also:King See also:John, his See also:father was See also:Hugo of See also:Lusignan, the See also:count of La See also:Marche, whom Isabelle married in 122o . The See also:children of this See also:marriage came to See also:England in 1247 in the See also:hope of obtaining See also:court preferment . In 1250 the king, by putting strong pressure upon the See also:electors, succeeded in obtaining the see of Winchester for See also:Aymer . The See also:appointment was in every way unsuitable . Aymer was illiterate, ignorant of the See also:English See also:language, and wholly See also:secular in his mode of See also:life . Upon his See also:head was concentrated the whole of the popular indignation against the See also:foreign favourites; and he seems to have deserved this unenviable distinction . At the See also:parliament of See also:Oxford (1258) he and his See also:brothers repudiated the new constitution prepared by the barons . He was pursued to Winchester, besieged in Wolvesey See also:castle, and finally compelled to surrender and leave the See also:kingdom . He had never been consecrated; accordingly in 1259 the See also:chapter of Winchester proceeded to a new See also:election . Aymer, however, gained. the support of the See also:pope; he was on his way back to England when he was over- taken by a fatal illness at See also:Paris . See W .

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Stubbs' Constitutional See also:History, vol. ii . (1896); G . W . Prothero's See also:Simon de See also:Montfort (1877); W . H . Bleauw's Barons' See also:War (1871) .

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