# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-de-corbeil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:56:20.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-de-corbeil"
name: "William de Corbeil"
slug: "william-de-corbeil"
description: "William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Very little is known of William's early life or his family, except that he was born at Corbeil, south-east of Paris, and that he had two brothers. Educated as a theologian, he taught briefly before serving the bishops of Durham and London as a clerk and subsequently becoming an Augustinian canon. William was elected to the See of Canterbury as a compromise candidate in 1123, the first canon to become an English archbishop. He succeeded Ralph d'Escures who had employed him as a chaplain."
tagline: "Prior of St. Osyth; Archbishop of Canterbury"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1070"
deathDate: "1136-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.36
  momentum:             10.90909090909091
  historical:           7.878366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil"
    title: "William de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Corbeil"
    title: "Wilhelm von Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil"
    title: "William de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_de_Corbeil"
    title: "Guillermo de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil"
    title: "William de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Corbeil"
    title: "Guillaume de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil"
    title: "William de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil"
    title: "William de Corbeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Вильгельм де Корбейль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363509"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump