Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎

Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1893, is a work by Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎. It explores elements such as Herbert, Anselm and Norwich.

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Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ Herbert's character has ‘been recklessly disparaged and blackened,’ but simony was, to use the words of Thomas Fuller, ‘a fashionable sin,’ and William of Malmesbury dilates upon the sincerity of Herbert's repentance. He was undoubtedly covetous. He retained on one occasion a palfrey which had been merely lent to him, and on another occasion complained of the scantiness of a voluntary gift of fruit. In his relations with his cathedral, his monks, and his diocese, Herbert was dignified and strict. He is said to have been personally attractive and to have excelled as a preacher and as a scholar. ”

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“ Weever states that some vain attempts were made to have Herbert canonised. A tomb in the choir, towards the high altar, known as ‘the founder's tomb,’ was, according to Sir Thomas Brown (Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Norwich) , greatly reduced in height, ‘it being an hindrance unto the people.’ Later on, Humphrey Prideaux, one of the prebendaries, was instrumental in restoring the tomb, and wrote a long Latin epitaph. ”

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“ Herbert afterwards wrote to Roger complaining of ill-health, and craving Roger's aid in relieving him of heavy fiscal burdens, especially connected with his manor of Thorpe, although the king presented it to him free from all taxes. In 1101 Herbert was sent to Rome by the king, with Robert of Chester and Gerard of York, to obtain from the pope a decision in his favour in his dispute with Anselm respecting lay-investitures. ”

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“ By Herbert's order Roger was buried in the cathedral of Norwich.
On the occasion of the removal of the body of St. Etheldreda to the newly erected church of the abbey at Ely, Herbert preached the sermon (cf. Liber Eliensis) . He is also said to have attended the council of Westminster held by Anselm in 1102, and to have assisted the archbishop at the consecration of the bishops of Hereford and Worcester at St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1107 he assisted at the consecration of five bishops at Canterbury, including Roger, bishop of Salisbury, the late treasurer. ”

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“ Herbert and his fellow-ambassadors represented that they received at Rome a verbal message from the pope recognising Henry I's pretensions, but Anselm's envoys, who were at Rome at the same time, warmly disputed the truth of their report [see arts. Anselm and Gerard, d. 1108] . In 1108 Herbert vainly sought to act the part of peacemaker between Anselm and Thomas (secundus) , archbishop-designate of York, who declined to receive consecration from Anselm. After Anselm's death in 1108 Thomas was consecrated, and Herbert assisted (27 June 1109) . ”

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“ Both churches are dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and the arms of abbey and diocese (three mitres) are identical.
The monastery at Norwich (of which important remains still exist) was built at the same time to accommodate upwards of sixty monks of the Benedictine order, who were under the rule of a prior, the first called to that office being one Ingulfus. A charter of William II granted to Herbert certain ‘lands at Norwich Castle,’ and he ratified the bishop's transfer of his Syleham manor, including church, water-mill, fishery, &c., to Roger Bigod in exchange for the church of St. ”

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Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ The labour involved was very large. Vessels bringing quarried stone were presumably unloaded at the Staithe on the Wensum, which is in close proximity. The cost was partly defrayed by Herbert out of his private purse, and partly by contributions of the people collected by the monks, whom the bishop energetically stimulated to activity in the matter. Throughout, the bishop's zeal gave the chief impetus. ”

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Charles Harold Evelyn White ‎, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ Luard, 1859 (Rolls Ser.) ; William of Malmesbury's Gesta Pontificum, i. 151 sq. (Rolls Ser.) ; Bale's Illustrium Maioris Britanniæ Scriptorum Summarium, 1548; Alexander Neville, De Furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, 1575 ”

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