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. In 1075, he oversaw their unification and

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(then at

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). He died before the completion of the new cathedral. Herman was a native of

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William of Malmesbury, '' Gesta Pontificum Anglorum'', § 83 cap.6: ''Regnabat iam tunc Edwardus, qui Hermanno capellano suo, natione Flandrensi, continuo pontificatum donandum putauit''. (

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). As

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, he was named Bishop of Ramsbury shortly after 22 April 1045. He visited Rome in 1050, where he attended a papal council with his fellow English bishop Ealdred.Smith "Court and Piety" ''Catholic Historical Review'' p. 574 He was named abbot of Malmesbury Abbey by King Edward in 1055Royal Berkshire History
"Herman (d. 1078)"
Nash Ford Publishing, 2005. and planned to move his seat there as well,Dolan, John Gilbert. "

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" in the ''

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'' (1913), Vol. IX. Encyclopedia Co. (New York), 1913. apparently in the hope of increasing the income from his poor see.Burton, ''Monastic and Religious Orders'', pp. 14–15. The king revoked this position after three days, however, when the

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and Earl Harold objected. Herman then abandoned Ramsbury to the administration of Ealdred and traveled to the continent to become a monk at the abbey of at

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. He returned three years later when the

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Sherborne Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. ...

fell vacant; he was elected, faced no opposition from Earl Harold, and resumed administration of Ramsbury around 1058 or 1059.British History Online Bishops of Salisbury
accessed on 30 October 2007 He later moved the see to the royal fortress at

.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222 Approval for this

and the unification of his sees was given at the council held at London between 1074 and 1075. Herman was a patron of

Goscelin Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (or Goscelin of Canterbury, born c. 1040, died in or after 1106) was a Benedictine hagiographical writer. He was a Fleming or Brabantian by birth and became a monk of St Bertin's at Saint-Omer before travelling to Eng ...

of Saint-Bertin, a noted medieval historian and musician.Williams ''English and the Norman Conquest'' pp. 134–135 Herman died on 20 February 1078.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herman 1078 deaths Bishops of Ramsbury (ancient) Bishops of Sherborne (ancient) Bishops of Salisbury Year of birth unknown 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops