Seffrid I, sometimes known as Seffrid Pelochin,Greenway
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' was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.

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Seffrid was the son of Seffrid d'Escures and Guimordis, and was a half brother to

Ralph d'Escures Ralph d'Escures (also known as RadulfEadmer. ''Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia''. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964. ) (died 20 October 1122) was a medieval abbot of Séez, ...

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from 1114 to 1122. He was a native of Escures, near

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, and his father was a landowner and sworn man of

Roger of Montgomery Roger de Montgomery (died 1094), also known as Roger the Great, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and Earl of Arundel, in Sussex. His father was Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of Montgomery, a member of the House of Montgomerie, and was probably ...

.Mayr-Harting "Introduction" ''Acta'' p. 5 He was a monk at Séez Abbey in

, France, and became

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of Glastonbury Abbey in 1120.Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' p. 51 He acted as an emissary for King

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at the papal curia in Rome.Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 191 In 1123 he went to Rome with Anselm of St Saba as part of

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the newly elected

's party. William was traveling to Rome to secure his

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.Knowles ''Monastic Order'' p. 409 Seffrid was nominated to the see of Chichester about February 1125 and consecrated on 12 April 1125Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 238 by

, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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. He was deprived of his see in 1145, and died sometime between 1150 and 1151. He was possibly deprived for homosexuality, and may have been buried at

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. Six genuine documents of his time as archbishop survive, along with his profession of obedience. Four of these documents were grants to monasteries, one dealt with his cathedral chapter's canon's, and the last is a grant of land.Mayr-Harting "Introduction" ''Acta'' p. 27

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