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William FitzGilbert
William FitzGilbert was the fifteenth Lord Chancellor of England, from 1141 to 1142, serving the Empress Matilda.Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 82 Notes References * Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961 See also *List of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers The following is a list of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of Commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum. Lord Chancellors and ... Lord chancellors of England 12th-century English people {{England-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda ( 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband to Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned in St Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry V had no children, and when he died in 1125, the imperial crown was claimed by his rival Lothair of Supplinburg. Matilda's younger and only full brother, William Adelin, died in the '' White Ship'' disaster of 1120, leaving Matilda's father and realm facing a potential succession crisis. On Emperor Henry V's death, Matilda was recalled to Normandy by her father, who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou to form an alliance to protect his southern borders. Henry I had no further legitimate children and nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Powicke
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879–1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford and was a professor at Queen's University, Belfast and the Victoria University of Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at the University of Oxford. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1946. Life Powicke was born on 16 June 1879 in Alnwick, the son of Martha, the youngest daughter of William Collyer of Brigstock, and Frederick James Powicke, a Congregational minister and historian of 17th-century puritanism. Powicke was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he took his first degree, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took another with first-class honours.'POWICKE, Sir (Frederick) Maurice', in '' Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black) From 1908 to 1915 he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, although in 1909 he was appointed as Professor of Modern History in the Queen's University, Belfast, where he remained for ten ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lord Chancellors And Lord Keepers
The following is a list of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of Commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum. Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers of England, 1050–1707 11th century * Regenbald (1050–after 1066) * Herfast (1068–1070) *Saint Osmund, count of Sées and bishop of Salisbury (c. 1070) * Maurice, Archdeacon of Le Mans (c. 1078) *Gerard, Preceptor of Rouen (c. 1085–before 1091), later Archbishop of York * Robert Bloet (after January 1091) *William Giffard (1094–1101) 12th century *Roger of Salisbury (1101–1102) * Waldric (1102–1107) * Ranulf (1107–1123) *Geoffrey Rufus (1123–1133) *Robert de Sigello (1133–1135) ''(Keeper of the Great Seal)'' *Roger le Poer (1135–1139) *Philip de Harcourt, Dean of Lincoln (1139–1140) *Robert of Ghent, Dean of York (1140–1141) *William FitzGilbert (1141–1142) *Robert of Ghent, Dean of York (1142– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Chancellor
The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to their Union into the Kingdom of Great Britain, there were separate lord chancellors for the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland; there were lord chancellors of Ireland until 1922. The lord chancellor is a member of the Cabinet and is, by law, responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts. In 2005, there were a number of changes to the legal system and to the office of the lord chancellor. Formerly, the lord chancellor was also the presiding officer of the House of Lords, the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the presiding judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Of Ghent
Robert of Ghent or Robert de Gant ( c. 1085–after 1154) was Lord Chancellor of England and Dean of York in the 12th century. The younger son of a nobleman, Robert was probably a member of the cathedral chapter of York before his selection as chancellor by King Stephen of England in the mid-1140s. He is not mentioned often in documents from his time as chancellor, but why this is so is unknown. He became dean at York Minster around 1147. Robert was slightly involved in the disputes over who would be Archbishop of York in the late 1140s and 1150s, but it is likely that his chancellorship prevented his deeper involvement in diocesan affairs. He was no longer chancellor after the death of Stephen, but probably continued to hold the office of dean until his death around 1157 or 1158. Early life Robert was probably one of the sons of Gilbert de Gant, who is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book''. Gilbert was from Flanders and came to England during 1069.Sherman "Robert de Gant" ''Hask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William De Vere
William de Vere (died 1198) was Bishop of Hereford and an Augustinian canon. Biography The son of Aubrey de Vere II and Adeliza of Clare, probably the fourth of five sons,Barrow "Vere, William de" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' and brother of Aubrey de Vere III first earl of Oxford, de Vere spent part of his youth at the court of King Henry I of England and his second wife, Queen Adeliza of Leuven. Little is known of his education, but he had received minor ecclesiastical orders before 1141. He was a friend of Bishop Arnulf of Liseux, and may have studied in Paris. William de Vere was promised the chancellorship of England by the Empress Matilda in the 1141 charter by which his brother was made earl, but given the political and military setbacks she suffered in that and subsequent years, it is not surprising that there is no record that he served as her chancellor. He later entered the household of Archbishop Theobald of Bec of Canterbury (d. 1163). He served in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Chancellors Of England
The following is a list of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of Commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum. Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers of England, 1050–1707 11th century *Regenbald (1050–after 1066) * Herfast (1068–1070) *Saint Osmund, count of Sées and bishop of Salisbury (c. 1070) * Maurice, Archdeacon of Le Mans (c. 1078) *Gerard, Preceptor of Rouen (c. 1085–before 1091), later Archbishop of York *Robert Bloet (after January 1091) * William Giffard (1094–1101) 12th century * Roger of Salisbury (1101–1102) *Waldric (1102–1107) * Ranulf (1107–1123) * Geoffrey Rufus (1123–1133) * Robert de Sigello (1133–1135) ''(Keeper of the Great Seal)'' * Roger le Poer (1135–1139) * Philip de Harcourt, Dean of Lincoln (1139–1140) * Robert of Ghent, Dean of York (1140–1141) * William FitzGilbert (1141–1142) * Robert of Ghent, Dean of York (114 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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