William of Sainte-Mère-Église

William's family originated from Sainte-Mère-Église, in the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy,Greenway [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops] and he held the prebend of 'Ealdstreet' in the diocese of London, as well as being dean of St Martin le Grand in London.Greenway [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp47-49 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Prebendaries: Ealdstreet] He also held a prebend in the diocese of York.

In 1193, William, along with the bishop of Salisbury Hubert Walter, found King Richard I of England where he was being held captive at Ochsenfurt in Germany. He was also named the clerk of the exchequer who was responsible for overseeing the Jewish moneylenders, and worked in Walter's new system of supervision to reduce fraud.Stacey "Walter, Hubert" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

William was elected to the See of London on 16 September 1198 and consecrated on 23 May 1199. He resigned the see on 25 January 1221 and retired to the Augustinian St Osyth's Priory in Essex.Turner "Religious Patronage" Albion p. 12 He died on 27 March 1224.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 258

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• {{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 |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
• {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Bishops |title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300|volume=1, St. Paul's, London|section-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 |access-date= 29 October 2007|publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1968}}
• {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Prebendaries: Ealdstreet |title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300|volume=1, St. Paul's, London|section-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp47-49 |access-date= 29 October 2007|publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1968}}
• {{cite ODNB |author= Stacey, Robert C. |title=Walter, Hubert |year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28633}}
• {{cite journal |author= Turner, Ralph V. |doi= 10.2307/4048700|date=Spring 1986 |title=Religious Patronage of Angevin Royal Administrators, c. 1170–1239 |jstor= 4048700 |journal= Albion|volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=1–21 }}

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