BISHOPS. 283 1 143 8 Steph. 19 St<*ph. iioi^^, and fled to Normandy «5. He died 3th Sept. 1 1 28 90. The see teas vacant for nearly Jive years ^^ between the death of bishop Flambard and the consecration of his successor, Geoffrey, surnamed Rufus, the King's chancellor, was consecrated at York 6th Aug. 1133^- by Thurstan, archbishop of York 9^, and was enthroned on the loth of the same month. He died 6th May 1140 9^. The see was void three years. William de S. Barbara, dean of York., was elected to this see 14th March 1142-3, and consecrated at Winchester 20th June following ^'^ by Henry, bishop of Winchester, the Pope's legate. He was enthroned 18th Aug. 1 143^^ and died r4th Nov. 1152^^ Hugh Pudsey^s, treasurer of York and archdeacon of Winchester, was elected 3ist Jan. 1152-3^9^ and was 88 Hoveden (f, 268 b) says ist Feb. iioi; but Simeon makes it the 3rd of that month. 89 He returned to England in 1 107. Ordericus, fol. 833 b. '^ Sim. Dun. libel, et Flor. Wigom. Others say 4th Sept. ^^ ITie custody of the bishop- ric was granted to two nobles upon the death of Ralph Flam- bard, and the see was vacant five years. Turgot, Contin. p. 709. '^'^ He was nominated at the same time as Nigel was to the see of Ely. (Bromt. col. 1019.) A" 1 133. mense Augusti ante Assumptionem S. Marie. S. Uu- nelm. (^ontinuat. i^J Turgot. Continual. ^■* Anglia Sacra, pars i. p. 709. An. 1 142. post l*ascha (ialfridus episcopus iJunelm. defunctus est. ('ontiriuat. Sim. Diiuclm. ^• lioiniiiica ante festuin Na- tivitatis S. Johannis Baptistse. Continual. Sim. Dunelm. et An- glia Sacra, pars i. p. 712. ^6 Others say i8th Oct. 1144. 97 Joh. Hagustald. : " Vixit in episcopatu annis ix, mensibus iv, diebus v. Transiit Idas De- cembris, tam annis plenus quam moribus, vir et religione et pru- dentia plurimum laudabilis," &c. (Continual. Hist. Sim. Dunelm.) 14th Nov. 1 152. (Annal. Dunelm. et Hist. Maj. Dunelm.) This last date is seemingly the most cor- rect. ^^ De Puteaco or Pusar, Pu- teacensis. ^-^ Die 79 post obitum Willi- elmo ej)iscopi, anno regis Ste- phani xviii. Indictione i. ii. Cal. Feb. clectus est in episcopatum 1 1 iigo, ICboracensis ecclcsia' The- KaurariuH et.XrchidiaconnH. ('on- tinuat. Sim. Diiiichn. 002
