William de Beaufeu was a medieval

Bishop of Thetford The Bishop of Thetford is an episcopal title which takes its name after the market town of Thetford in Norfolk, England. The title was originally used by the Normans in the 11th century, and is now used by a Church of England suffragan bishop. ...

and a major landholder mentioned in the

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.The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Major Domesday landholders page 338

Life

William's land holdings were mainly in the county of

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and Suffolk. He was a royal clerk before he was nominated to the see of ThetfordBritish History Online Bishops of Norwich
accessed on 29 October 2007 on 25 December 1085 and consecrated in 1086. He died in 1091.Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223 He was probably related to Richard de Beaufou

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from 1134 to 1142.Spear "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy" ''Journal of British Studies'' p. 5

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British History Online Bishops of Norwich
accessed on 29 October 2007 * Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961 * Spear, David S. "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy, 1066–1204" ''The Journal of British Studies'' Volume XXI Number 2 Spring 1982 p. 1-10 1000s births 1091 deaths Anglo-Normans Bishops of Thetford (ancient) 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub