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RICHARD (d. 1184)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD (d. 1184) , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was a See also:Norman, who became a See also:monk at Canterbury, where he acted as See also:chaplain to Archbishop See also:Theobald and was a colleague of See also:Thomas See also:Becket, In 1173, more than two years after the See also:murder of Becket, it was decided to fill the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury; there were two candidates, Richard, at that See also:time See also:prior of St See also:Martin's, See also:Dover, and See also:Odo, prior of Canterbury, and in See also:June Richard was chosen, although Odo was the nominee of the monks. Objections were raised against this See also:election both in See also:England and in See also:Rome, but in See also:April 1174 the new archbishop was consecrated at Anagui by See also:Pope See also:Alexander III., and he returned to England towards the See also:close of the See also:year. The ten years during which Richard was archbishop were disturbed by disputes with See also:Roger, archbishop of See also:York, over the respective rights of the two See also:sees, and in 1175, at a See also:council held in See also:London, there was a See also:free fight between their partisans. See also:Henry II. arranged a truce for five years between the See also:rival prelates, but Richard was soon involved in another See also:quarrel, this being with Roger, See also:abbot of St See also:Augustine's, Canterbury, whose See also:action also trenched upon the privileges of the archbishop. Richard was more acceptable to Henry II. than Becket had been; he attended the royal See also:councils, and more than once he was with the See also:king in See also:Normandy. Henry probably preferred him because he insisted less on the rights of the See also:clergy than his See also:great predecessor had done; but the monastic writers and the followers of Becket regarded this attitude as a sign of weakness. Richard died at See also:Rochester on the 16th of See also:February 1184 and was buried in his See also:cathedral. See the See also:article by W. See also:Hunt in the Dict. Nat. Biog. vol. xlviii.

(1896); and W. F. See also:

Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury.

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