Robert de Sigello (died 1150) was a medieval
Bishop of London
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
and
Lord Chancellor of England
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Life
Robert was keeper of the king's seal, usually known as
Lord Chancellor
The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...
from 1133 to 1135.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 83] He at one point was a monk at
Reading Abbey
Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, m ...
, where he may have forged charters in favour of the abbey.
[Clanchy ''From Memory to Written Record'' p. 318]
Robert was nominated to the
see of London
The Diocese of London forms part of the Church of England's Province of Canterbury in England.
It lies directly north of the Thames. For centuries the diocese covered a vast tract and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north ...
by the
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda ( 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as ...
[Greenway ]
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops
' and consecrated in 1141, possibly about July.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258] He died in 1150, and as his death was commemorated on both 28 September and 29 September, he probably died on one of those dates in 1150.
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See also
* List of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers
The following is a list of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. It also includes a list of Commissioners of Parliament's Gre ...
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Bishops of London
Lord chancellors of England
1150 deaths
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Year of birth unknown
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