Peter of Lichfield

Peter

Bishop of Chester
Province| Canterbury
Appointed| 1072
Term ended| 1085
Successor| Robert de Limesey
Other post(s)| possibly a royal clerk
Previous post(s)| Bishop of Lichfield
Orders
Consecration| after May 1072
Personal details
Died| 1085
Buried| Chester
Denomination| Roman Catholic Church

Peter (died 1085) was a medieval cleric. He became Bishop of Lichfield in 1072, then his title changed to Bishop of Chester when the see was moved in 1075.[1]

Peter had been a royal chaplain before being nominated to the see of Lichfield. Nothing else is known of his background, although presumably he was a Norman, as were most of King William I of England's episcopal appointments.[2] He may have been a royal clerk of King Edward the Confessor,[3] although one charter of 1065 that lists his name is a forgery.[4] He was the custodian of the see of Lincoln, before his elevation to the episcopate.[5] He was consecrated after May 1072 and died in 1085.[1] Peter pillaged the abbey of Coventry, "forcing an entry into their dormitory and breaking into their strongboxes, robbing them of their horses and all their goods" and was censured by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury, who chastised him that "it is neither your role or as a bishop nor within your power to do these things".[6][7] Peter was buried at Chester.[5] The historian Katharine Keats-Rohan suggests that he was the uncle of Regenbald, a royal clerk under King Edward and King William.[8]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
2. ^ Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 36
3. ^ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 pp. 117–118
4. ^ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 121
5. ^ a b Cooke and Costambeys "Peter" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
6. ^ Barlow English Church 1066–1154 p. 62 footnote 52
7. ^ Gibson (1979). Letters of Lanfranc. Oxford. p. 113.
8. ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 351

## References

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* Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9.
* —— (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
* Cooke, Alice M.; Costambeys, Marios (2004). "Peter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
* Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
* Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-X.
* Powell, J. Enoch; Wallis, Keith (1968). The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A History of the English House of Lords to 1540. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. OCLC 463626.

## Further reading

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* Cherry, J. "The lead seal matrix of Peter, bishop of Chester" Antiquaries Journal Vol. 65 (1985), p. 472–3 and pl. CVI b

Catholic Church titles

Preceded by

Leofwin

|  Bishop of Lichfield
1072–1075  | See moved to Chester
New title |  Bishop of Chester
1075–1085  | Succeeded by

Robert de Limesey

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Bishops of Lichfield (including precursor offices)

Mercia|

* Diuma
* Ceollach
* Trumhere
* Jaruman
* Chad, Bishop of the Mercians & the Lindisfaras

Lichfield|

* Winfrith
* Seaxwulf
* Headda
* Aldwine
* Witta
* Hemele
* Cuthfrith
* Berhthun
* Hygeberht (Archbishop of Lichfield)
* Ealdwulf
* Herewine
* Æthelwold
* Hunberght
* Cynefrith
* Tunberht
* Wulfsige
* Burgheard
* Eadberht
* Wulfred
* Wilferth
* Ælfwine
* Wulfgar
* Cynesige
* Wynsige
* Elphege
* Godwin
* Leofgar
* Brihtmær
* Wulfsige
* Leofwin
* Peter (became Bishop of Chester)
* Peter, Bishop of Chester

Coventry|

* Robert de Limesey, Bishop of Chester
* Robert de Limesey (previously Bishop of Chester)
* Robert Peche
* Roger de Clinton
* Walter Durdent
* Richard Peche
* Gerard la Pucelle
* Hugh Nonant
* Geoffrey de Muschamp
* William de Cornhill
* Alexander de Stavenby

Coventry & Lichfield|

* Alexander de Stavenby
* Hugh de Pateshull
* Roger Weseham
* Roger de Meyland
* Walter Langton
* Roger Northburgh
* Robert de Stretton
* Walter Skirlaw
* Richard le Scrope
* John Burghill
* John Catterick
* James Cary
* William Heyworth
* William Booth
* Nicholas Close
* Reginald Boulers
* John Hales
* William Smyth
* John Arundel
* Geoffrey Blythe
* Rowland Lee

Lichfield & Coventry|

* Rowland Lee
* Richard Sampson
* Ralph Baines
* Thomas Bentham
* William Overton
* George Abbot
* Richard Neile
* John Overall
* Thomas Morton
* Robert Wright
* Accepted Frewen
* Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
* Accepted Frewen
* John Hacket
* Thomas Wood
* William Lloyd
* John Hough
* Edward Chandler
* Richard Smalbroke
* Frederick Cornwallis
* John Egerton
* Brownlow North
* Richard Hurd
* James Cornwallis
* Henry Ryder
* Samuel Butler

Lichfield|

* Samuel Butler
* James Bowstead
* John Lonsdale
* George Selwyn
* William Maclagan
* Augustus Legge
* John Kempthorne
* Edward Woods
* Stretton Reeve
* Kenneth Skelton
* Keith Sutton
* Jonathan Gledhill
* Clive Gregory (acting)
* Michael Ipgrave

11th-century Bishop of Lichfield and Bishop of Chester
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