Waleran was a medieval

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. Waleran was

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of the

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Spear "Norman Empire" ''Journal of British Studies'' p. 6 and a clerk serving Richard of Dover,

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.British History Online Bishops of Rochester
accessed on 30 October 2007 Waleran was elected on 9 October or 10 October 1182Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267 and was ordained a priest on 18 December 1182. He was consecrated on 19 December 1182. Waleran died on 29 August 1184.

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accessed on 30 October 2007 * * Bishops of Rochester 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops 1184 deaths Anglo-Normans Year of birth unknown {{England-bishop-stub