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WILLIAM LONGCHAMP (d. 1197)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM LONGCHAMP (d. 1197)  , chancellor of England and bishop of Ely, entered public
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life at the close of Henry II.'s reign as official to the king's son Geoffrey, for the arch-deaconry of
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Rouen . Henry II., who disliked him, called him the " son of two traitors." He soon deserted Geoffrey for Richard, who made him chancellor of the duchy of
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Aquitaine . He always showed himself an able diplomatist . He first distinguished himself at Paris, as Richard's envoy, when he defeated Henry II.'s attempt to make peace with Philip Augustus (1189) . On Richard's accession William became chancellor of the
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kingdom and bishop of Ely . When Richard
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left England (Dec . 1189), be put the tower of
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London in his hands and chose him to share with
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Hugh de Puiset, the
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great bishop of Durham, the office of chief justiciar .

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