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Leofwin

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{{Other uses|Leofwine (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| name = Leofwin

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| title = Bishop of Lichfield

| appointed = 1053

| consecration = 1053

| ended = resigned 1070

| predecessor = Wulfsige

| successor = Peter

| other_post = Abbot of Coventry

| death_date = after 1071

}}

Leofwin (or Leofwine; died after 1071) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.

Appointed to the see by King Edward the Confessor of England, Leofwin was a monk before becoming a bishop.Knowles Monastic Order p. 71 footnote 2 For a time, he was abbot of the abbey of Coventry as well as bishop, but he was no longer abbot at the time of the Norman Conquest of England.Knowles Monastic Order p. 111 footnote 4 He may have owed his promotion to Lichfield to Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Leofric's family.Barlow English Church p. 109 footnote 3 He was consecrated in 1053, but he went overseas to be consecrated because of the irregular election of Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury.Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 13 footnote 8 Around 1068, he was the recipient of a writ from King William I of England, which shows that he had accommodated himself to the Conquest.Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 14 According to the Handbook of British Chronology, he died in 1067,Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 219 but he continues to appear in documentary evidence, and most historians, such as Frank Barlow, believe that he was deprived of his see in 1070 and died sometime after that.Barlow Feudal Kingdom of England p. 93 He was a married bishop,Huscroft Ruling England p. 45 and it appears that he was aware that he was unlikely to be allowed to retain his bishopric because of his marital status. He refused to appear at the council held in London on 7 April 1070, despite being summoned to answer charges for his marriage. He was condemned as contumacious in his absence, and a year later he officially resigned his see and retired to Coventry Abbey.Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 34Douglas William the Conqueror p. 324Williams English and the Norman Conquest p. 45 footnote 3{{Cite book |last=Whitelock |first=D. |title=Councils and Synods, with other documents relating to The English Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1986 |edition=vol. 1 |location=Oxford |pages=565}} The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc, had already denounced Leofwin's marriage. Leofwin was a nephew of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.Knowles Monastic Order p. 103 The see of Lichfield remained vacant until 1072, when a successor was appointed.

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References

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  • {{cite book |author=Barlow, Frank |title=The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church |author-link=Frank Barlow (historian) |publisher=Longman |location=New York |year=1979 |isbn=0-582-49049-9 |edition=Second }}
  • {{cite book |author=Barlow, Frank |title=The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216 |author-link=Frank Barlow (historian) |edition=Fourth |publisher=Longman |location=New York |year=1988 |isbn=0-582-49504-0 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Douglas, David C. |title= William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England |author-link= David C. Douglas |year=1964 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, CA }}
  • {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
  • {{cite book |author=Huscroft, Richard |title=Ruling England 1042–1217 |publisher=Pearson/Longman |location=London |year=2005 |isbn=0-582-84882-2 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Knowles, David |title=The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 |author-link=David Knowles (scholar) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1976 |edition= Second reprint |isbn=0-521-05479-6 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Powell, J. Enoch |author2= Wallis, Keith |title=The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A History of the English House of Lords to 1540 |author-link= Enoch Powell |year=1968 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |location=London |oclc= 463626 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Williams, Ann |title=The English and the Norman Conquest |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Ipswich, UK |year=2000 |isbn=0-85115-708-4 |author-link=Ann Williams (historian) }}

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Further reading

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  • {{cite encyclopedia |last= Franklin|first= M. J. |title=Leofwine (d. in or before 1095) |encyclopedia= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |date= May 2009 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/95149 |accessdate= 17 March 2011|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/95149 |url-access= subscription }} {{ODNBsub}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Lancaster|first= J. C. |title=The Coventry Forged Charters: A Reconsideration | journal = Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |volume=27 |year=1954 |pages= 113–140 |doi= 10.1111/j.1468-2281.1954.tb01130.x}}

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External links

  • {{PASE|18324|Leofwine 72}}

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