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WILLIAM OF CORBEIL (d. 1136)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM OF See also:CORBEIL (d. 1136)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born probably at See also:Corbeil on the See also:Seine, and was educated at See also:Laon . He was soon in the service of Ranulf See also:Flambard, See also:bishop of See also:Durham; then, having entered the See also:order of St See also:Augustine, he became See also:prior of the Augustinian See also:foundation at St Osyth in See also:Essex . At the beginning of 1123 he was chosen from among several candidates to be archbishop of Canterbury, and as he refused to admit that See also:Thurstan, archbishop of See also:York, was See also:independent of the see of Canterbury, this See also:prelate refused to consecrate him, and the ceremony was performed by his own See also:suffragan bishops . Proceeding to See also:Rome the new archbishop found that Thurstan had anticipated his arrival in that See also:city and had made out a strong See also:case against him to See also:Pope See also:Calixtus II.; however, the exertions of the See also:English See also:king See also:Henry I. and of the See also:emperor Henry V. prevailed, and the pope gave See also:William the See also:pallium . The archbishop's next dispute was with the papal s See See also:Henri Lavoix, Histoire de l'See also:instrumentation, p. See also:fit ; See also:Gerber, Lexikon, " Giuseppe Ferlendis "; See also:Robert Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon der Tonkilnstler, " Gioseffo Ferlendis . See also:Fetis and Pohl also, refer to him . ' See Musical Travels thro' See also:England (See also:London, 1774), p . 56 . From See also:Richard See also:Hofmann's Katechismus der Musikinstrumente . 1 See also:legate, See also:Cardinal See also:John of See also:Crema, who had arrived in England and was acting in an autocratic manner . Again travelling to Rome, William gained another victory, and was himself appointed papal legate (legatus natus) in England and See also:Scotland, a precedent of considerable importance in the See also:history of the English See also:Church . The archbishop had sworn to Henry I. that he would support the claim of his daughter See also:Matilda to the English See also:crown, but nevertheless he crowned See also:Stephen in See also:December 1135 .

He died at Canterbury on the 21st of See also:

November 1136 . William built the keep of See also:Rochester See also:Castle, and finished the See also:building of the See also:cathedral at Canterbury, which was dedicated with See also:great pomp in May 1130 . See W . F . See also:Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury (186o—1884) ; and W . R . W . See also:Stephens, History of the English Church (1901) .

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