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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LONGEV ITY with See also:

Hugh, and by See also:April r 190 had managed to oust him completely from See also:office. In See also:June 1190 he received a See also:commission as See also:legate from See also:Pope See also:Celestine. He was then See also:master in See also:church as well as See also:state. But his disagreeable See also:appearance and See also:manners, his See also:pride, his contempt for everything See also:English made him de-tested. His progresses through the See also:country with a See also:train of a thousand knights were ruinous to those on whom devolved the See also:burden of entertaining him. Even See also:John seemed preferable to him. John returned to See also:England in 1191; he and his adherents were immediately involved in disputes with See also:William, who was always worsted. At last (June 1191) See also:Geoffrey, See also:archbishop of See also:York and William's earliest benefactor, was violently arrested by William's subordinates on landing at See also:Dover. They exceeded their orders, which were to prevent the archbishop from entering England until he had sworn fealty to See also:Richard. But this See also:outrage was made a pretext for a See also:general rising against William, whose legatine commission had now expired, and whose See also:power was balanced by the presence of the archbishop of See also:Rouen, See also:Walter See also:Coutances, with a commission from the See also:king. William shut himself up in the See also:Tower, but he was forced to surrender his castles and expelled from the See also:kingdom. In 1193 he joined Richard in See also:Germany, and Richard seems to have attributed the See also:settlement soon after concluded between himself and the See also:emperor, to his " dearest See also:chancellor." For the See also:rest of the reign See also:Longchamp was employed in confidential and See also:diplomatic See also:missions by Richard all over the See also:continent, in Germany, in See also:France and at See also:Rome.

He died in See also:

January 1197. His See also:loyalty to Richard was unswerving, and it was no doubt through his unscrupulous devotion to the royal See also:interest that he incurred the hatred of Richard's English subjects. AUTnomrIEs.—See also:Benedictus, Gesta Henrici, vol., ii.; Giraldus Cambrensis, De Vita Galfridi; See also:Stubbs' See also:Preface to See also:Roger of Hoveden, val. iii.; L. Bovine-See also:Champeaux, See also:Notice sur See also:Guillaume de Longchamp (vrcux, 1885).

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