Dear Julia
Thank you ever so much for the information about Hugh de Mapenore.
I wonder if you might happen to hazard a guess at the origin of his name
please in your experience? Mapenore doesn't sound English, could it be of
Italian origin for instance ?
If I may just ask you secondly whether you think it possible that this
bishop may have actually had children, giving rise to the Mapp family, which
is predominant even today around Hereford, northwards through
Worcestershire, as far as Shrewsbury and Shropshire ? I imagine that a
Bishop should have been celibate, but ....?
Thank you ever so much for your consideration.
I will look out for your article, book . It sounds very interesting!
best wishes
David
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From: JULIA BARROW <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: re Hugh de Mapenore
> Most of what is available in print about Bishop Hugh de Mapenore of
> Hereford is in my edition of Hereford episcopal acta (= English
> Episcopal Acta vii: Hereford 1095-1234 [Oxford U.P. for the British
> Academy 1993]).
> Hugh appears to have made his early career serving William de Braose
> (the one who died 1211); he then became clerk to one of William's
> sons, Giles, when the latter became bishop of Hereford in 1200 and
> Giles shortly afterwards, in about 1201, made Hugh dean. On Giles'
> death in November 1215 the chapter of Hereford cathedral elected Hugh
> as bishop.
> There is no evidence that he was ever unfrocked. There is a slightly
> scandalous reference to him in the Prose Salernitan Questions (ed.
> Brian Lawn); cf. brief mention of this in my article 'Athelstan to
> Aigueblanche' in the recent history of Hereford cathedral (Hereford
> Cathedral: a History, ed. G. Aylmer and J. Tiller [London and Rio
> Grande 2000]). It is true that King John didn't want Hugh to become
> bishop, but this probably had nothing to do with religion and more to
> do with the fact that Hugh was not his own choice, was relatively
> speaking a nobody and, worst of all, had been a protege of the de
> Braose family, with whom John had fallen out badly. Honorius III gave
> Hugh de M. the all clear after John's death, and he was bishop from
> 1216 to his death in 1219.
>
> Julia Barrow
>
>
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