WHO WAS BORN
1403: King Charles VII of France
WHO DIED
1072: Stigand
Stigand
became Bishop of Winchester
under Edward the
Confessor, and after making peace between King Edward and
Earl Godwine he was made Archbishop of Canterbury. However, the
office had not been officially vacated when his predecessor, Robert
of Jumièges, fled, and under canonical law it was illegal for
him to hold the office while Robert still lived. His continuation as
Archbishop as well as Bishop of Winchester was one of the reasons why
Pope Alexander
II gave his support to William's
invasion, but Stigand was too strong to remove immediately and kept
the archbishopric until 1070.
Several of Stigand's deeds are recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
