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THURSTAN, or TURSTIN (d. 1140)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 905 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THURSTAN, or TURSTIN (d. 1140)  , See also:archbishop of See also:York, was the son of a certain Anger, or See also:Auger, See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, See also:London, and a See also:brother of Audoen (d . 1139), See also:bishop of See also:Evreux . He himself was a prebendary of St Paul's, and was also a clerk in the service of See also:William II. and then of See also:Henry I., who secured his See also:election as archbishop of York in See also:August 1114 . He now entered upon the See also:great controversy which occupied him during a large See also:part of his subsequent See also:life and made him for several years an See also:exile from See also:England . Archbishop See also:Ralph of Canter-See also:bury refused to consecrate him unless he made a profession of obedience to the See also:southern see; this See also:Thurstan refused and asked the See also:king for permission to go to See also:Rome to consult See also:Pope See also:Paschal II . Henry I. declined to allow him to make the See also:journey, while Paschal declared against Archbishop Ralph . At the See also:Council of See also:Salisbury in 1116 the See also:English king ordered Thurstan to submit, but instead he resigned his archbishopric, although this did not take effect . The new pope, See also:Gelasius II., and also his successor, See also:Calixtus II., espoused the cause of the stubborn archbishop, and in See also:October 1119, in spite of promises made to Henry I., he was consecrated by Calixtus at See also:Reims . Enraged at this the king refused to allow him to enter England, and he remained for some See also:time in the See also:company of the pope . At length, however, his See also:friends succeeded in reconciling him with Henry, and, after serving the king in See also:Normandy, he was recalled to England, which he entered See also:early in 112i . Refusing to recognize the new archbishop of See also:Canterbury, William of See also:Corbeil, as his See also:superior, Thurstan took no part in his See also:consecration, and on two occasions both archbishops carried their complaints in See also:person to Rome . In 1138 he made a truce at Roxburgh between England and See also:Scotland, and took active part in gathering together the See also:army which defeated the Scots at the See also:Battle of the See also:Standard in August 1138 .

Early in 1140 he entered the See also:

order of the Cluniacs at See also:Pontefract and here he died on the 6th of See also:February 1140 . Thurstan was generous to the churches of his See also:diocese and was the founder of several religious houses . See his life in the See also:Fasti eboracenses, edited by J . Raine (1863) . THYLACINE (Thylacinus cynocephalus) . The only known living See also:species of this genus, though smaller than a See also:common See also:wolf, is the largest predaceous marsupial existing . It is See also:con-fined to the See also:island of See also:Tasmania, although fragments of bones and See also:teeth found in caves afford See also:evidence that a closely allied species once inhabited the Australian mainland . The See also:general See also:colour of the thylacine is See also:grey-See also:brown, but it has a See also:series of transverse See also:black bands on the hinder part of the back and loins, whence the name of " See also:tiger " frequently applied to it by the colonists . It is also called "wolf," and sometimes, though less appropriately, " See also:hyena." Owing to the havoc it commits among the See also:sheep-folds, it has been nearly exterminated in all the more settled parts of Tasmania, but still finds shelter in the more mountainous regions of the island . The See also:female produces four See also:young at a time .

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