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Gerard

Bishop of Hereford; Lord Chancellor; Archbishop of York · Religious Figures · Died 1108

Gerard was Archbishop of York between 1100 and 1108 and Lord Chancellor of England from 1085 until 1092. A Norman, he was a member of the cathedral clergy at Rouen before becoming a royal clerk under King William I of England and subsequently his son King William II Rufus.

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Robert of Hereford Preceded Gerard as Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford

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Gerard undertook missions to Pope Urban II, seen here preaching the First Crusade in an illustration from the Grand Chronicle of France, a work from about 1455.

Thirteenth-century manuscript illustration of Henry I

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Gerard was appointed Lord Chancellor by William I, and he continued in that office under Rufus, who rewarded him with the Bishopric of Hereford in 1096. Gerard may have been with the king's hunting party when William II was killed, as he is known to have witnessed the first charter issued by the new king, Henry I of England, within days of William's death.

Religious Figures born in the 1100s 6

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