GEOFFREY (c. I152-1212)  , archbishop of York, was a bastard son of Henry II., king of England . He was distinguished from his legitimate half-brothers by his consistent attachment and fidelity to his father . He was made bishop of Lincoln at the age of twenty-one (1173); but though he enjoyed the temporalities he was never consecrated and resigned the see in 1183 . He then became his father's chancellor, holding a large number of lucrative benefices in plurality . Richard nominated him archbishop of York in 1189, but he was not consecrated till 1191, or enthroned till 1194 . Geoffrey, though of high character, was a man of uneven temper; his history in chiefly one of quarrels, with the see of Canterbury, with the chancellor Willian Longchamp, with his half-brothers Richard and John, and especially with his canons at York . This last dispute kept him in litigation before Richard and the pope for many years . He led the clergy in their refusal to be taxed by John and was forced to fly the kingdom in 1207 . He died in Normandy on the 12th of December 1212 . See Giraldus Cambrensis, Vita Galfridi; Stubbs's prefaces to Roger de Hoveden, vols. iii. and iv . (Rolls Series) . (H .

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