William de Beaufeu

William de Beaufeu
Bishop of Thetford
Church	Catholic
Appointed	25 December 1085
Term ended	1091
Predecessor	Herfast
Successor	Herbert de Losinga
Orders
Consecration	1086
Personal details
Died	1091

William de Beaufeu (sometimes William de Beaufai, William of Bello Fargo or William of Belfou)^{[lower-alpha 1]} was a medieval Bishop of Thetford and a major landholder mentioned in the Domesday Book.^[1]

Life

William's land holdings were mainly in the county of Norfolk and Suffolk.^[1] He was a royal clerk before he was nominated to the see of Thetford^[2] on 25 December 1085 and consecrated in 1086. He died in 1091.^[3] He was probably related to Richard de Beaufou Bishop of Avranches from 1134 to 1142.^[4]

Citations

↑ The place where the name comes from is probably fr:Beaufour (Normandy, now Calvados département) : Belfou 1040 - 1066, Bellafagus 1195 "beautiful beech-tree", confused later with another place-name (Orne département) Beaufai : Belfai 1092, De Bello Fayaco ar. 1345 "beautiful beech wood"

Citations

1 2 The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Major Domesday landholders page 338 ISBN 1-85833-440-3
↑ British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
↑ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
↑ Spear "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy" Journal of British Studies p. 5

References

British History Online Bishops of Norwich accessed on 29 October 2007
Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
Spear, David S. "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy, 1066–1204" The Journal of British Studies Volume XXI Number 2 Spring 1982 p. 1-10

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Herfast	Bishop of Thetford 1085-1091	Succeeded by Herbert de Losinga

Bishops of Norwich

Bishops of Elmham	Bedwinus Northbertus Headulacus Æthelfrith Eanfrith Æthelwulf Alherdus Sybba Hunferthus Humbertus See interrupted Eadwulf Ælfric I Theodred I Theodred II Athelstan Ælfgar Ælfwine Ælfric II Ælfric III Stigand Grimketel Stigand (again) Æthelmær Herfast see removed to Thetford

Bishops of Thetford	Herfast William de Beaufeu Herbert de Losinga see removed to Norwich

High Medieval	Herbert de Losinga Everard of Calne William de Turbeville John of Oxford John de Gray Pandulf Verraccio Thomas Blunville Simon of Elmham William de Raley Walter Suffield Simon Walton Roger Skerning William Middleton Ralph Walpole

Late Medieval	John Salmon Robert Baldock William Ayermin Thomas Hemenhale Antony Bek William Bateman Thomas Percy Henry le Despenser Alexander Tottington Richard Courtenay John Wakering William Alnwick Thomas Brunce Walter Hart James Goldwell Thomas Jane

Early modern	Richard Nykke William Rugg Thomas Thirlby John Hopton John Parkhurst Edmund Freke Edmund Scambler William Redman John Jegon John Overall Samuel Harsnett Francis White Richard Corbet Matthew Wren Richard Montagu Joseph Hall Edward Reynolds Anthony Sparrow William Lloyd John Moore Charles Trimnell Thomas Green John Leng William Baker Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Samuel Lisle Thomas Hayter Philip Yonge Lewis Bagot George Horne Charles Manners-Sutton

Late modern	Henry Bathurst Edward Stanley Samuel Hinds John Pelham John Sheepshanks Bertram Pollock Percy Herbert Launcelot Fleming Maurice Wood Peter Nott Graham James

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