Roger (died 1102) was a medieval
Bishop of Hereford
The Bishop of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury.
The episcopal see is centred in the City of Hereford where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is in the Cathedral Church of Sain ...
-elect.
Roger was the
larderer
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for King
Henry I Henry I may refer to:
876–1366
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry I the Long, Margrave of the N ...
of England before he was appointed to the
see of Hereford in September 1102.
[Vaughn ''Anselm of Bec'' pp. 246–248] He was invested with the
bishopric
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
on 29 September 1102,
[ by King Henry I of England.][ He then attended the Council of London held just days later. He became ill, and asked Anselm, the ]Archbishop of Canterbury
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to consecrate him before his death, but Anselm refused as the archbishop had already compromised with the king over the Investiture Crisis
The Investiture Controversy, also called Investiture Contest (German: ''Investiturstreit''; ), was a conflict between the Church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops ( investiture) and abbots of mona ...
by allowing the king to invest Roger.[ He died at the council within a week of his investiture.][Barrow ]
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: volume 8: Hereford: Bishops
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Bishops of Hereford
1102 deaths
Anglo-Normans
Year of birth unknown
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
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