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WALTER OF COUTANCES (d. 1207)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALTER OF See also:COUTANCES (d. 1207)  , See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln and See also:archbishop of See also:Rouen, commenced his career in the See also:chancery of See also:Henry II., was elected bishop of Lincoln in 1182, and in 1184 obtained, with the See also:king's help, the see of Rouen . Throughout his career he was much employed in See also:diplomatic and administrative duties . He started with See also:Richard I. for the Third Crusade, but was sent back from See also:Messina to investigate the charges which the barons and the See also:official class had brought against the See also:chancellor, See also:William Longc4mp . There was no love lost between the two; and they were popularly supposed to be rivals for the see of See also:Canterbury . The archbishop of Rouen sided with the barons and See also:John, and sanctioned See also:Longchamp's deposition—a step which was technically warranted by the See also:powers which Richard had given, but by no means calculated to protect the interests of the See also:crown . The See also:Great See also:Council now recognized the archbishop as See also:chief See also:justiciar, and he remained at the See also:head of the See also:government till 1193, when he was replaced by See also:Hubert See also:Walter . The archbishop did See also:good service in the negotiations for Richard's See also:release, but subsequently quarrelled with his See also:master and laid See also:Normandy under an See also:interdict, because the border stronghold of See also:Chateau See also:Gaillard in the Vexin had been built on his See also:land without his consent . After Richard's See also:death the archbishop accepted John as the lawful See also:heir of Normandy and consecrated him as See also:duke . But his See also:personal inclinations leaned to See also:Arthur of See also:Brittany, whom he was with difficulty dissuaded from supporting . The archbishop accepted the See also:French See also:conquest of Normandy with equanimity (1204), although he kept to his old See also:allegiance while the issue of the struggle was in doubt . He did not See also:long survive the conquest, and his later See also:history is a See also:blank . See W .

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Stubbs's See also:editions of See also:Benedictus Abbas, Hoveden and See also:Diceto (Rolls See also:series) ; R . Howlett's edition of " William of See also:Newburgh " and " Richard of See also:Devizes " in See also:Chronicles, &c., of the Reigns of See also:Stephen, Henry II. and Richard I . (Rolls series) . See also the See also:preface to the third See also:volume of Stubbs's Hoveden, pp. lix. xcviii . ; J . H . See also:Round's See also:Commune of See also:London, and the French poem on See also:Guillaume le Marechal (ed . P . See also:Meyer, See also:Soc. de l'Histoire de See also:France) . (H . W . C .

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