BISHOPS. 281
85 Maurice, the King's chaplain and chancellor, was nomi-
r ill. I. nated by the King at Gloucester to the see of London
on Christmas-day 1085 86 , and was consecrated at
Winchester by archbishop Lanfranc in 1086-7. He
died 26th Sept. 1 [07 s ?.
08 Richaed de Beaumes or Belmeis, surnamed tin
m . I. Red, was elected at Whitsuntide in 1108 at Mort-
lake, and consecrated at Pageham 26th July iio8 ss .
He died 16th Jan. 1 127-2'. and was buried at St.
Osyth's in Essex. He seems t< have endeavoured to
get restored the archiepiscopal dignity to the see of
London
28 Gilbert the Universal, a cumin of Lyont^ was con-
[en. I. secrated at Canterbury 22nd Jan.] 1 27-28'", and died
on his route to Rome 10th Aug. 1 [34 **. On the death
of Gilbert the Universal,
Axski.m, ahhut of Bury, (nephew of Anselm, archbishop
of Canterbury.) was elected by some of the canons of
London, contrary to the King's desire, and the votes
of the dean and other canons, and he was confirmed
by the court of Borne and enthroned in St. Paul's in
1 137 ; but he was never consecrated, as his election
was not approved by the King, and it was subsequently
86 Abb. Chron. Rad. de Di- of archbisbop Anselm's letters to
ceto, Sim. Dunelm. et Hoved. pope Paschal in 1108: " Non
Wendoversays,on that day 1086; deberem ant possem pati, ut me
but he commenced the new year in ea vivente primatus ecclesise
on Christmas-day. nostra? destrueretur. Hoc ipsum
8/ ~ All the chroniclers agree et eodem affectu suggero reve-
that he died in 1107. Speaking rentia? vestrae de Lundonia, si
of the date of his death, given in ejus episcopo pallium petitur,
the text, Wharton says, " Eun- quod nunquam habuit ; ut sc. ad
detn die 26 Septembris obiisse, hoc nullatenus assensum prse-
Godwinus; nescio qua fide, ad- beat." Eadmeri Hist. Nov. p. 99. didit." 91 Flor.Wigorn.
Ss Hoved. et Rog. Wendover. 9 -> Matt. West., H. Hunt.,Rog.
89 Hoved., Matt.Westm., Rad. Wend, et Hoved., et Annal. de Diceto, and Eadmer, pp. 96, Winton. ; but in the Canterbury 97. lib. iv. p. 105. Weever, p. obituary 8th Aug. is assigned 608. for his death.
90 So it would seem from one
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