Aymer de Valence ( 1222 – 4 December 1260) was a
Bishop of Winchester around 1250.
Life
Valence was a half brother of
King Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry ass ...
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accessed on 2 November 2007 his mother was
Isabella of Angoulême
Isabella (french: Isabelle, ; c. 1186/ 1188 – 4 June 1246) was Queen of England from 1200 to 1216 as the second wife of King John, Countess of Angoulême in her own right from 1202 until her death in 1246, and Countess of La Marche from 122 ...
, the second wife of
King John, his father was
Hugh X of Lusignan
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, the
count of La Marche
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La Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when William III, D ...
, whom Isabelle married in 1220. He was also the uncle of
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
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The children of Isabella's marriage came to England in 1247 in the hope of obtaining court preferment. Aymer received a
prebend in the
diocese of London.
see of Winchester
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on 4 November.[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 276] The appointment was in every way unsuitable. Aymer was illiterate, ignorant of the English language, and wholly secular in his mode of life. Upon his head was concentrated the whole of the popular indignation against the foreign favourites; and he seems to have deserved this unenviable distinction. However, he received confirmation of his election to the see from Pope Innocent IV
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on 14 January 1251, along with a dispensation to keep his other ecclesiastical income.[
He played a role in touching off the baronial reform movement of 1258. On 1 April 1258 Aymer sent a posse to attack men of the magnate John fitz Geoffrey at ]Shere
Shere is a village in the Guildford district of Surrey, England east south-east of Guildford and west of Dorking, centrally bypassed by the A25. It is a small still partly agricultural village chiefly set in the wooded ' Vale of Holmesdale' ...
in Surrey, killing one of them. At a parliament opened at Westminster a week later John fitz Geoffrey demanded justice from the king; Henry excused Aymer, his half-brother, and refused justice thus angering the barons. At the Parliament of Oxford in 1258 he and his brothers repudiated the Provisions of Oxford
The Provisions of Oxford were constitutional reforms developed during the Oxford Parliament of 1258 to resolve a dispute between King Henry III of England and his barons. The reforms were designed to ensure the king adhered to the rule of law and ...
prepared by the barons. He was pursued to Winchester, besieged in Wolvesey castle
Wolvesey Castle, also known as the "Old Bishop's Palace", is a ruined building in Winchester, Hampshire, England that was a bishop's palace, and was briefly fortified during the later years of Henry of Blois, the Bishop of Winchester.
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, and finally compelled to surrender and leave the kingdom. He had never been consecrated; accordingly in 1259 the chapter of Winchester proceeded to a new election. Aymer, however, gained the support of Pope Alexander IV
Pope Alexander IV (1199 or 1185 – 25 May 1261) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 December 1254 to his death in 1261.
Early career
He was born as Rinaldo di Jenne in Jenne (now in the Province of Rome), he ...
, and in January 1259, Alexander IV sent Velascus (a Friar Minor
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) to England to compel the King and the barons to reinstate Aymer to his bishopric at Winchester.[Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. J. H. Sbaralea, 4 vols (Rome, 1761), ii, 319-323] He was on his way back to England when he was overtaken by a fatal illness at Paris
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, having only been consecrated on 16 May 1260 before his death on 4 December 1260.[ He is buried in Paris.
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Bishops of Winchester
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1260 deaths
1220s births