2S8 CHICHESTER.
BISHOPS OF CHICHESTER.
1070 Stigand^s, iJiQ King's chaplain, was appointed by the
5 Will. I. King at Whitsuntide 1070. He removed his seat
from Selsey to Chichester about the year 1085'^'^, and
became the first bishop of Chichester '^o. He died in
108741.
1087 William (according to the Hsts in Malmesbury and I Will. II. Florence) succeeded, but according to other au- thorities
1088 Godfrey 4- succeeded Stigand in the see of Chichester, I Will. II. and died in the same year^-^ ; after whose decease the
see was vacant nearly three years, when 1 09 1 Ralph de Luffa was appointed to it-**. He died 14th 4 Will. II. Dec. 1 1 25, and was buried in Chichester cathedral in the passage before St. Mary's chapel, where there was formerly a plain stone bearing these words, " Radulfus Episcopus cognomine Luffa." 1 125 Seffride or Sigefrid, ahhot of Glastonbury '^^, was no- 25 Hen. I. rainated by the King in 1 125*^, and was consecrated by William archbishop of Canterbiuy 12th April in that year*?. He was deposed in 1145, and died in ii5i*. 1 148 Hilary was nominated to the bishopric of Chichester 13 Steph. in 114649^ and consecrated by command of the Pope in 1 148 ^*^. He died in 1 169^1. The see was void about four years.
^8 Non ille qui postea fuit Epi- bury Register it appears that he
Scopus Wintoniensis et Archie- made his profession of obedience
piscopus Cantuariensis. Malmes. to archbishop Lanfranc in 1088.
Pontif. hb. ii. '^^ Annal. Winton.
39 Die autem Pentecostes rex 44 Malmes. Pont. Annal. Wint. dedit Stigando capellano suo ^5 Lib de Antiq. Glaston. Eccl. Episcopatura Suthsaxonum, qui MS. Cott. Tiber. A.V. mutavit sedem in Cicestriam. ^6 Rog. Wendover.
40 Monast. et Flor. Wigorn. 47 Matt. Westm.
41 Sim. Dunelm. col. 213. 48 Chron. Petrob. Hoved. 461. Annal. Winton. 49 ibid.
42 Anno 1088 Godefridus fit O Sim. Dunelm. Hist. Contin. Episcopus Cycestriee, et obiit col. 276.
ipso anno ; and in the Canter- i Annal. Waverl. et Winton.
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