Gilbert Glanvill or Gilbert de Glanville was a medieval
Bishop of Rochester.
Life
Glanvill was a clerk of
Archbishop Baldwin of
Canterbury
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and the
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[British History Online Bishops of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was elected
bishop
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of
Rochester
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on 16 July 1185. He was ordained as a priest on 21 September
[ and consecrated 29 September of the same year.
In 1190, early during the reign of ]Richard I
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, he founded a hospital in Strood, east of the church, which was afterwards called the Newark or Stroud Hospital. In 1830, under King Henry VIII, the hospital was put under the control of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.
In 1201, 5 acres of King John's demesne wood in Ospringe
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were given to him.England
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with Bishop
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Herbert
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of Salisbury
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in 1207 during the dispute between King John and Pope
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Innocent III
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over the election of the new archbishop of Canterbury.[Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. " Herbert Poor or Pauper" in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', Vol. XLVI. Smith, Elder, & Co. (London), 1896. Hosted at ]Wikisource
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Glanvill died on 24 June 1214.[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267]
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Bishops of Rochester
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1214 deaths
Anglo-Normans
Year of birth unknown