Raoul d'Avranches (RadulfusPierre Bouet et François Neveux, Les évêques normands du XIe siècle : Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (30 septembre - 3 octobre 1993), Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 1995, 330 p. (ISBN 2-84133-021-4), "Les évêques normands de 985 à 1150", p. 19-35) was a bishop of Bayeux at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th century.

Biography

Originally from Dol-de-Bretagne, Raoul was from a noble family.M. Hermant, Histoire du diocèse de Bayeux, première partie contenant l'histoire des évêques, Chez Pierre F. Doublet, Caen, 1705, p. 125 He succeeded bishop Richard and became

bishop of Bayeux The Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: ''Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux'') is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is coextensive with the Department of Calvados and is a ...

in 986. According to the

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, he occupied the

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around 966, but this date seems unlikely. He signed for foundations in favor of the

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by the Duke of Normandy in 989 and attended a council held in Rouen in 990. He was present at the dedication of the church of S. Trinité at

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in 990. In 1006 a fire destroyed the cathedral of Bayeux. Radulfus died shortly after the fire.Fisquet, Honoré Jean P. . La France pontificale: Metropole de Rouen: Bayeux et Lisieux.(Paris:(1864) E. Repos.) p. 20.

References

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