It would seem to me that the expression is meant to be vague: not THE
bishop OF France, but "A bishop FROM France."
Patrick Nugent
>In an account book of the 1420s for the English port town of Dover, I
>found a reference to a person just called 'bishop of France'
>(episcopus ffranciae). I am at a loss to know what diocese in 15th
>century France might have been sufficiently pre-eminent for its holder
>to be called 'bishop of France' and in my attempts to unravel this, it
>occurs to me to ask if any of you has seen that expression elsewhere
>and if so in what context....
>
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>
>A.
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Earlham College
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