The ''History of the Church of York'', also known as ''Historia ecclesiae Eboracensis'', is a 12th-century historical

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

text composed by Hugh the Chantor (died 1139).Gransden, ''Historical Writing'', p. 123. It describes the history of the

archdiocese of York The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the ...

between 1066 and 1127, and is written almost in the form of a series of biographies of the archbishops during that period, particularly detailed during the episcopate of

Thurstan :''This page is about Thurstan of Bayeux (1070 – 1140) who became Archbishop of York. Thurstan of Caen became the first Norman Abbot of Glastonbury in circa 1077.'' Thurstan or Turstin of Bayeux ( – 6 February 1140) was a medie ...

, to whom Hugh was a close companion. A large concern of the text is the claims of the archbishopric of York to independence of and equality with the

archbishopric of Canterbury The Province of Canterbury, or less formally the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England. The other is the Province of York (which consists of 12 dioceses). Overview The Province consist ...

.Gransden, ''Historical Writing'', p. 124.

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* 12th-century Latin books Latin historical texts from Norman and Angevin England {{England-hist-book-stub