Seffrid I

Seffrid I, sometimes known as Seffrid Pelochin,^[1] was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.

[edit] Life

He was the son of Seffrid d'Escures and Guimordis, and was a half brother to Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1114 to 1122. He was a monk at Séez Abbey in Séez, France,^[1] and became abbott of Glastonbury Abbey in 1120.^[2] He acted as an emissary for King Henry I of England at the papal curia in Rome.^[3] In 1123 he went to Rome with Anselm of St Saba as part of William de Corbeil the newly elected Archbishop of Canterbury's party. William was traveling to Rome to secure his pallium.^[4] Seffrid was nominated to the see of Chichester about February of 1125 and consecrated on April 12, 1125^[5] by William de Corbeil, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth.^[1] He was deprived of his see in 1145, and died sometime between 1150 and 1151.^[5] He was possibly deprived for homosexuality, and may have been buried at Glastonbury.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d British History Online Bishops of Chichester accessed on October 20, 2007
^ Knowles Heads of Religious Houses p. 51
^ Cantor Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture p. 191
^ Knowles The Monastic Order in England p. 409
^ ^a ^b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 238

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