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WILLIAM OF ST CALAIS (CARILEF) (d. ro96)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM OF ST See also:CALAIS (CARILEF) (d. ro96)  , See also:bishop of See also:Durham and See also:chief counsellor of See also:William See also:Rufus, was a See also:Norman See also:monk and See also:prior of St See also:Calais in See also:Maine, who received the see of Durham from the Conqueror (ro81) . In Durham See also:annals he is honourably remembered as the See also:prelate who designed the existing See also:cathedral, and also for his reform of ecclesiastical discipline . His See also:political career is less creditable . Honoured with the See also:special confidence of William Rufus he deserted his See also:patron's cause at the first sign of See also:rebellion, and joined with See also:Odo of See also:Bayeux in urging See also:Duke See also:Robert of See also:Normandy to claim the See also:crown (1088) . After the collapse of this See also:plot William was put upon his trial before the See also:Great See also:Council . He claimed the right to be judged by his See also:fellow-bishops alone; this claim being rejected he appealed to the see of See also:Rome . This was the first See also:case of an See also:appeal to the See also:pope from an See also:English tribunal which had occurred since the 7th See also:century . Rufus and See also:Lanfranc did not venture to dispute the right of appeal, but contended that the bishop, as a royal See also:vassal, could not appeal against the See also:forfeiture of his temporalities . These were confiscated, and William See also:left the See also:kingdom, but no more was heard of his appeal, and in ro91 he regained the royal favour and his see . Thenceforward he showed the utmost subservience . He managed the See also:king's case against See also:Anselm, and at See also:Rockingham (logs) actually claimed the right of appeal, when it was claimed by the See also:archbishop . Notwithstanding his zeal for the royal interests, William was soon afterwards disgraced .

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January 1096 . See E . A . See also:Freeman, William Rufus (1882), and Symeon of Durham, vol. i. pp . 170-195 (Rolls ed.) .

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