Gilbert Glanvill

Summary

Gilbert Glanvill or Gilbert de Glanville was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.

Gilbert Glanvill
Bishop of Rochester
Elected16 July 1185
Term ended24 June 1214
PredecessorWaleran
SuccessorBenedict of Sausetun
Other post(s)Archdeacon of Lisieux
Orders
Ordination21 September 1185
Consecration29 September 1185
Personal details
Died24 June 1214
DenominationCatholic

Life edit

Glanvill was a clerk of Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury and the archdeacon of the Lisieux.[1] He was elected bishop of Rochester on 16 July 1185. He was ordained as a priest on 21 September[1] and consecrated 29 September of the same year.

In 1190, early during the reign of Richard I, he founded a hospital in Strood, east of the church, which was afterwards called the Newark or Stroud Hospital.[2] In 1539, under King Henry VIII, the hospital was put under the control of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.[3]

In 1201, 5 acres of King John's demesne wood in Ospringe were given to him.[4] He was forced to flee England with Bishop Herbert of Salisbury in 1207 during the dispute between King John and Pope Innocent III over the election of the new archbishop of Canterbury.[5]

Glanvill died on 24 June 1214.[6]

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b British History Online Bishops of Rochester Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed on 30 October 2007
  2. ^ Coulson & Collins 1982.
  3. ^ William Henry Ireland England's topographer, or A new and complete history of the county of Kent (1830), p. 261, at Google Books
  4. ^ Hasted, Edward (1798). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. 6. Institute of Historical Research: 499–531. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  5. ^ Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. "Herbert Poor or Pauper" in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XLVI. Smith, Elder, & Co. (London), 1896. Hosted at Wikisource. Accessed 3 Jan 2015.
  6. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 267

References edit

  • Coulson, Richard Lewis Harrison; Collins, L.M. (1982), A Chronology of Strood to 1899, Kent County Libraries
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Rochester
1185–1214
Succeeded by