I don't know if anyone has answered this question nor whether what I write
below will help:
>
> Dear MedRelians:
>
> I recently came across an early 15th-century reference to the Bishop
> of Coventry-Lichfield as "Lord of Chester". I assume this is in
> reference to the huge archdeaconry of Chester which was (is?) in the
> diocese of Cov.-Lich.
>
> Has anyone else seen such a reference? How early might this alternate
> appellation have arisen?
>
In the late eleventh century the see was at Chester and was moved to Coventry
in 1102, but the style continued thro' the 12th century to be bishops of
Chester. I have these references:
David Crouch, 'Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, earl of Warwick: new men and
magnates in the reign of Henry I', _Bull Institute of Historical Research_, lv,
no. 132 (1982) (p. 119 -- Roger de Clinton, Geoffrey's brother, was Bp of
Chester/Coventry).
Fryde, Greenway, Porter and Roy, eds, _Handbook of British Chronology (3rd edn,
1986), p. 253.
And so one sses that in G de Clinton's charter to Garendon Abbey about Ibstock,
it is addressed to .R. episcopo de cestria [BL Lansdowne MS 415, fos 15r-v,
with another version at ibid., fo 5r].
I doubt that this helps, but perhaps it has some interest.
--
Dave Postles
Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester
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