William de Goldcliff

{{Short description|Bishop of Llandaff, Wales (died 1229)}}

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William de Goldcliff (died 12 January 1229), was Bishop of Llandaff from 1219 until his death in 1229.{{cite book|title=An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: Volume III – Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments the Later Castles from 1217 to the present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhnYtVAUhQEC&pg=PA475|year=2000|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales|isbn=978-1-871184-22-8|page=475}} He had formerly been the Prior of Goldcliff Priory from around 1190 to 1219.Williams, D. H., (1970) "Goldcliff Priory", The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 3:1 (1970–1), 37–54. {{ISSN|1359-9062}} He was elected Bishop before 11 July 1219, and resigned from his position as Prior of Goldcliff.{{cite web|url=http://www.monasticwales.org/person/124|title=Priors of Goldcliff|publisher=Monasticwales.org|accessdate=3 April 2016}} He received royal assent and the temporalities on 16 July,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&dq=william+de+goldcliff&pg=PA293|title=Handbook of British Chronology|author=Pryde, E. B. Greenway, D. E.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996|page=293|isbn=978-0-5215-6350-5}} and was consecrated Bishop of Llandaff on 27 October.{{cite book|title=Canterbury and York Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9M7AAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=The Canterbury and York Society|page=65}} He died in office on 28 January 1229.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXI_AQAAMAAJ&dq=william+de+goldcliff&pg=RA1-PA93|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis: Supplements, Volume 1|year=1863|publisher=University of Chicago|page=93}}