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Bishop of Lichfield The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Mi ...

in 1072, then his title changed to

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when the

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was moved in 1075.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 253 Peter had been a royal chaplain before being nominated to the see of Lichfield. Nothing else is known of his background, although presumably he was a Norman, as were most of King

William I of England William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 108 ...

's episcopal appointments.Powell and Wallis ''House of Lords'' p. 36 He may have been a royal clerk of King

Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. Edward was the son of Æth ...

,Barlow ''English Church 1000–1066'' pp. 117–118 although one charter of 1065 which lists his name is a forgery.Barlow ''English Church 1000–1066'' p. 121 He was the custodian of the see of Lincoln, before his elevation to the episcopate.Cooke and Costambeys "Peter" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' He was consecrated after May 1072 and died in 1085. Peter pillaged the abbey of Coventry, "forcing an entry into their dormitory and breaking into their strongboxes, robbing them of their horses and all their goods" and was censured by Archbishop

Lanfranc Lanfranc, OSB (1005 1010 – 24 May 1089) was a celebrated Italian jurist who renounced his career to become a Benedictine monk at Bec in Normandy. He served successively as prior of Bec Abbey and abbot of St Stephen in Normandy and then ...

of Canterbury, who chastised him that "it is neither your role or as a bishop nor within your power to do these things".Barlow ''English Church 1066–1154'' p. 62 footnote 52 Peter was buried at Chester. The historian

Katharine Keats-Rohan Dr Katharine Stephanie Benedicta Keats-Rohan (; born 1957) is a British history researcher, specialising in prosopography. She has produced seminal work on early European history, and collaborated with, among others, Christian Settipani.< ...

suggests that he was the uncle of

Regenbald Regenbald (sometimes known as Regenbald of Cirencester) was a priest and royal official in Anglo–Saxon England under King Edward the Confessor. His name suggests that he was not a native Englishman, and perhaps was German or Norman. He first ...

, a royal clerk under King Edward and King William.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday People'' p. 351

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