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THOMAS (d. 110o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS (d. 110o)  , archbishop of York, was a native of
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Bayeux, and is usually called Thomas of Bayeux . His
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father was a priest named Osbert, and Samson, bishop of Worcester from 1o86 until his
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death in May 1112, was his
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brother . Owing largely to the generosity of
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Odo, bishop of Bayeux, Thomas studied in France, Germany and Spain and became known as a scholar; then he became one of Bishop Odo's officials and after io66 one of William the Conqueror's chaplains, or secretaries . In 1070 he succeeded Aldred as archbishop of York, but declining to promise obedience to the archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc, the latter prelate refused to consecrate him . King William, however, induced him to submit and he was consecrated, but his profession of obedience was to Lanfranc personally and not to the archbishops of Canterbury . In 1071 both archbishops travelled to Rome for their palls and while there Thomas wished Pope Alexander II. to decree the equality of the
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sees of Canter-bury and York . The pope, however, referred the dispute to a council of
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English prelates, and this met at Windsor at Whitsuntide.1072 . It was then decided that the archbishop of Canter-bury was the
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superior of the archbishop of York, who had no rights south of the
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Humber, but whose province included Scot-
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land . But this decision did not put a period to the dispute . It broke out again, and in 1092 and again in 1093 Thomas protested against what he regarded as infringements of his archiepiscopal rights . The first of these occasions was over the dedication of the
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cathedral built by Remigius at Lincoln and the second was over the consecration of St Anselm to the archbishopric of Canterbury . In 'too, during Anselm's exile, Thomas reached
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London too
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late to
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crown Henry I., the ceremony having been hurriedly performed by Maurice, bishop of London, but his anger at this slight was soon appeased .

He died at York on the 18th of

November moo . Thomas rebuilt the minster at York, where he appears to have been an excellent archbishop; he knew something of church
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music and wrote
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hymns . Thomas had a
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nephew, Thomas, the son of his brother Samson, who was also archbishop of York . The younger Thomas became archbishop in zro8 and like his
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uncle he refused to promise obedience to the archbishop of Canterbury; his consecration was then delayed and the dispute was still unsettled when St Anselm died in
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April 1109 . Henry I. and his bishops then decided against Thomas, who was forced to make the necessary promise and was consecrated in London in
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June 1109 . He died at Beverley on the 24th of
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February 1114 .

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