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[S. DAVID'S FIRST CLAIMS OF METROPOLITANSHIP.]

XVIII. HEN. HUNT., VII. a. 1134a. Obiit ...... Lauendensis Episcopus in via Romæ pro causa sua tam diu agitata. [385 Savile.]— GUL. MALM., Hist. Nov., I. 7.-Anno tricesimo primob regni Henrici contentio inter Bernardum Episcopum Menevensem et Urbanum Landavensem de jure parochiarum, quas idem Urbanus illicite usurpaverat, æterno fine sopita est: tot enim ad curiam Romanam appellationibus, tot itinerum expensis, tot causidicorum conflictibus, multis annis ventilata, tandem aliquando morte Urbani apud Romam soluta vel potius decisa est: nam et Apostolicus, æquitate rei perpensa, religioni et justitiæ Menevensis Episcopi qua decebat sententia satisfecit. [699 Hardy.]

a Matt. Paris also (73 Wats) dates Urban's death," in itinere Romano," in 1134.

b Read "secundo." The reference is to the council of April 24, 1132, and Henry's

32nd year was from Aug. 5, 1131, to Aug. 4, 1132.

Ann. de Margan, a Glamorganshire abbey, use the same words (13 Luard).

A.D. 1135a. Bernard of S. David's applies to Innocent II. for a Pall. Innocentio Papa BERNARDUS EPISCOPUs. Innocentio Dei gratia sanctæ Romanæ et universalis Ecclesiæ summo Pontifici, Bernardus Sancti Andreæ Sanctique David vicarius indignus, humilis subjectionis obsequium cum orationibus assiduis.... [Apud clementem judicem pallium expetit a Papa pro Ecclesia sua Menevensi.]-[ap. Gir. Camb., De Invect. II. 7; Opp. III. 58.]

[WELSH BISHOP OF BANGOR CONSECRATED BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.]

A.D. 1140. Meurig, elected by the Welsh, but consecrated to Bangor by the Archbishop of Canterbury, against the will of Owen Gwynedd and his brother Kadwallader, then princes of Gwynedd, objects to swear allegiance to the King of England.

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I. CONT. FLOR. WIG. a. 1139.—Quoniam vero instabant solennes dies Dominici Adventus [3 Dec.], ... Rex [Stephanus] Wigornam rediit; ubi quidam clericus, vir eximiæ religionis, Mauricius nomine, electus a clero et a populo Bangornensis Ecclesiæ, comitantibus illum præsulibus Rotberto Herefordensi et Sigefrido Cicestrensi, in castello Regi præsentatur, attestantibus illum canonice electum præsulatu fore dignum. Quod et Rex concessit. Persuasus a pontificibus ut Regi fidelitatem faceret, respondit, hoc se nullatenus posse facere. 'Vir,' inquit, 'magnæ religionis apud nos est, quem pro spirituali patre teneo, et prædecessoris mei David archidiaconus extitit, qui hoc juramentum mihi facere inhibuit.' Ad hæc illi, Quod nos egimus, causa rationis exigit ut agas.' At ille, 'Si vos magnæ auctoritatis viri hoc egistis, nulla mora sit mihi id idem faciendi.' Jurat et ille fidelitatem Regi. [II. 121, 122.]

Meet us at Aberdyvi, Nov. 1, to

gor.

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II. Owen and Kadwallader Princes of North Wales to Bishop Bernard. A.D.1140. Bernardo Episcopo OENeus et KadwallADERUS oppose the Can- PRINCIPES NORWALLIÆ. Bernardo Dei gratia Menevensi terbury claimant Episcopo Oeneus Rex Walliæ et Kawalader salutem of the see of Ban- et omne bonum. Notum sit vestræ potestati... [Conqueritur quendam hominem, Mauricium Episcopum nomine, S. Danielis Ecclesiam non per ostium sed ut fur aliunde intrasse; Bernardumque invitat, ut cum Anarauda filio Grifini in festo Omnium Sanctorum ad ostium Devi se conferat ut deliberationem de istis cum eo agat.] -[ap. Gir. Camb., De Invect. II. 9; Opp. III. 59.]

a Anarawd, son of Gryffyth ap Rhys, prince of South-Wales, was son-in-law to Kadwallader.

III. P. R. C.—Professio Mauricii Bangornensis. a Ego Mauricius ad regimen Ecclesie Bangornensis electus, et a te, reverende pater Theobalde, sancte Cantuariensis Ecclesie Archiepiscope et totius Britanniæ primas, per gratiam Dei, antistes consecrandus, tibi et omnibus successoribus tuis tibi canonice succedentibus debitam subjectionem et

[WELSH BISHOP OF BANGOR CONSECRATED BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.] canonicam obedientiam per omnia me exhibiturum fore promitto. [Reg. Prior. et Conv. Cant. I.; and MSS. Cott. Cleop. E. 1.]

a Maurice and Uchtryd of Llandaff were consecrated 1140 (Contin. Flor. Wig. II. 124, and Gervas. 1665). The Professions of both are

verbatim the same. The latter was a married man with a family (Brut y Tywysog. in a. 1171, p. 212, ed. Williams).

A.D. 1143. Jurisdiction exercised by Archbishop Theobald over
Uchtryd Bishop of Llandaff.

his cause with

off?

I. GILB. FOLIOT ABBAS GLOCEST. ad Theobaldum Cant. The Bishop of Llandaff too ill Archiepiscopum.-Patri suo et domino Cantuariensi Dei to appear. May gratia Archiepiscopo et totius Angliæ primati T[heothe Priory of baldo], frater G[ilbertus] Glocestriæ dictus abbas, pie Goldclive be put velle quæ Dei sunt et actu semper implere. Sublimitati vestræ, domine, pro amicis supplicare compellimur, qui nec pro nobis audiri digni satis invenimur. Plus tamen eligimus apud patrem de pietate corripi, quam apud fratres de spreta charitate damnari. Ad vestram vocatus audientiam dominus Landaviensis multiplicibus se causis excusat, hinc difficultatem itineris, inde suspectas adversantium insidias, et præ cæteris sui corporis infirma prætendens. Inde vero nuper redeuntes fratres nostri, de quorum fide et veritate non ambigimus, de ipsius infirmitate contestantur. De lecto itaque ægritudinis suæ tum etiam per nos supplicando postulat, ut causæ præsentis actio usque ad vestrum reditum differatur; sic tamen ut res ipsa, quæ in controversia est, a fratribus de Goldclive interim inconcusse possideatur. Qua in re, si nec majestatem vestram minui nec fratrum vestrorum justitiam impediri videritis, petitioni huic annuendo, nos sicut in cæteris omnibus sic et in hoc ipso per omnia gratiæ debitores efficeretis. Glorificetur in vobis Deus, vestrique corona meriti semper augeatur in Domino Jesu Christo, dilecte pater. [Epist. XLVI.]

The Archbishop

consents.

II. ID. ad Uctredum Landaviensem Episcopum.-Patri suo et domino venerabili Landaviensi Dei gratia Episcopo, frater Gilbertus] Glocestriæ dictus abbas, salutem et dilectionem. De vestra erga nos benignitate certo rerum argumento non dubium, si gratiam mentis non æquamus, tamen in quo possumus, vobis obsequi parati sumus. Litteras itaque domini Archiepiscopi vobis mittimus, ut attendatis ex his, quid vobis factu opus sit; et quod agendum videritis,

[JURISDICTION OF CANTERBURY OVER LLANDAFF.]

prudenti cura adimpleatis. Oportet enim, sicut scripsistis, ut possessionem, de qua contenditis, monachis de Goldclive usque ad reditum domini Archiepiscopi inconcusse demittatis, eisque pacem interim de cætero observetis. Sicque faciendo, et judicem poteritis habere propitium, et cum ad causam accingi oportuerit, melius poterit reformari negotium. Valete. [16. XLVII.]

Desist from your suit until

turns.

III. ID. ad Priorem et Fratres de Goldclive.-Frater G[iluntil the bertus] Glocestriæ dictus abbas, dilectis in Christo fratriArchbishop re- bus domino Priori de Goldclive cæterisque fratribus, salutem et dilectionem. Paci vestræ et quieti sollicite providens, dominus Archiepiscopus vobis istud per me denuntiat, ut prosequendæ causæ, quam adversus dominum Landaviensem habetis, hac vice operam non detis. Placuit enim Serenitati ejus, ut actio ipsa usque ad octavas Epiphaniæ vel ad reditum ejus deinceps differatur; sic tamen ut possessio, quæ in controversia est, a vobis interim inconcusse possideatur. Dominus enim Landaviensis, sicut scripto suo testatur, hoc idem annuit, et vobis interim pacem se per omnia servaturum (Isai. xxvi.) compromittit. Valete; et paternæ circa vos gratias reddentes affectioni, ejus per omnia consiliis acquiescite. [1b. XLVIII.

a Foliot was abbat of Gloucester 1139-1148, Uchtryd Bishop of Llandaff 1140-1147, and at the Council of Winchester 1143 (Thorn, in Twysd. 1803). Several letters of the former are addressed to Uchtryd (Epistt. VIII. XXI. XLV. LVI. LVII. LXI. LXXI., and see Epist. XVI.; Epist. CCXVIII. belongs to Bishop Nicolas his successor). Theobald went to the Council of Rheims in March 1148, and on his return was banished from England, and was absent abroad

most part of the year. But besides that this would be too late for Uchtryd's Episcopate, the absence in the text seems to have been both a voluntary journey and at a different time of the year. The only other recorded journey abroad of Archbishop Theobald (after he went for his pall in 1139) was in 1143 "ante Natale" when he followed Henry of Winchester to Rome" de legatione acturi" (Hen. Hunt. 225).

A.D. 1143. Gilbert of S. Asaph consecrated by the Archbishop of
Canterbury at Lambetha.

GERVAS., Chron.-Hoc anno [1143] sacravit Theodbaldus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus Gilebertum Laneluensis Ecclesiæ electum apud Lambethe, baccepta prius ab eo professione, astantibus et cooperantibus Roberto Londoniensi Episcopo et Ascelino Rofensi Episcopo. [Twysd. 1359.]

a If the letter of the chapter of S. David's, given hereafter under A.D. 1145, really intends Gilbert by the "Richard" therein mentioned, and

if their (very onesided) statements are at all to be trusted, then he must have been elected by the clergy of S. Asaph, to be presented to the Bishop

[FIRST NORMAN BISHOP OF S. ASAPH.]

of S. David's for consecration, but with the consent, as of the Earl of Chester, so also of King Stephen; whose captivity (Feb. 2-Nov. 1141) is there said to have delayed such consecration and to have given Theobald of Canterbury the opportunity of arrogating it to himself. On the other hand, Owen Gwynedd captured the castle of

Mold in Flintshire in A.D. 1144, and must have been in full possession of S. Asaph and all its neighbourhood both then and for some years previously.

b Gilbert's Profession is not entered upon the Canterbury Rolls, although his consecration is endorsed upon them.

A.D. 1143. Cistercians introduced into Wales.

ANN. MENEV.-Ducti sunt monachi ordinis Cisterciensis, qui modo sunt apud Albam Landam, in West-Walliam per Bernardum Episcopum, qui dedit eis locum apud Trefgarn in Denglethesa. [ap. Wharton, A. S., II. 649.]—CHRON. S. WERBURG.-Fundata est Cwmhyre in Wallia, filia Blanchland. [ap. Dugd. Mon. V. 458.]

a "Deuglethef" (Ann. Camb. in a. 1144). Viz. Trefgarn in the cantref of Daugleddau, in the middle of Pembrokeshire. The new-comers must have almost immediately moved to Whit

His legates shall

S. David's claim to metropolitanship.

land: see Brut, ed. Williams, in an. 1146, and Dugd. Mon. V. 591. Cwm Hir was in Radnorshire. For Kymmer in Merioneth, see A.D. 1198.

A.D. 1144. May 14. Lucius II. to Bernard of S. David's. LUCIUS EPISCOPUS SERVUS SERVORUM DEI, venerabili inquire into the fratri Bernardo Episcopo S. Davidis, salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem. Fraternitatis tuæ literas debita benignitate suscepimus; et quod de dignitate Ecclesiæ tuæ tam in ipsis quam in aliis, quæ super hoc ad sedem Apostolicam missæ sunt, diligenter attendimus. Verum quoniam, peccatis exigentibus et pravorum hominum superabundante malitia, ejusdem Ecclesiæ dignitas longo elapso tempore ab ipsa alienata et ad alias Ecclesias translata est, certum quid inde statuere ad præsens consilium non habemus. Disponimus quidem per Dei gratiam legatos nostros pro Ecclesiarum negotiis ad partes illas in proximo dirigere, quibus eandem causam per antiquos homines et authentica Ecclesiæ tuæ scripta indicare curabis; et nos, per eos veritate plenius cognita, quod ad honorem Dei statuendum fuerit, maturiori habito consilio statuemus. Datum Laterani, II. id. Maii. [ap. Gir. Camb., De Invect. II. 3, and De Jure et Statu Menev. Eccl., Dist. III.; Opp. III. 52, 53, 187: and in Wharton, A. S., II. 549.]

A.D. 1145. Chapter of S. David's to Eugenius III. respecting the
metropolitanship of S. David's a.

They allege in- Eugenio Papa CAPITULUM SANCTI DAVID.- Dei gratia