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ROGER (d. 1181)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 454 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROGER (d. 1181) , See also:archbishop of See also:York, known as Roger of See also:Pont 1'Eveque, was a member of the See also:household of See also:Theobald, archbishop of See also:Canterbury, where he quarrelled violently with another future archbishop, See also:Thomas See also:Becket. In 1148 he was appointed See also:archdeacon of Canterbury, and soon afterwards See also:chaplain to See also:King See also:Stephen, who sent him on an errand to See also:Rome in 1152; then in See also:October 1154 he was consecrated archbishop of York in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. When See also:Henry II. entered upon his See also:great struggle with Becket over the See also:immunity of clerks from See also:secular See also:jurisdiction, he managed to secure the support of Roger, and having been appointed papal See also:legate in See also:England, the archbishop visited See also:Pope See also:Alexander III. and the See also:French king, See also:Louis VII., in his See also:master's interests. In See also:June 1170 he crowned the king's son Henry, in spite of prohibitions from the pope and from Becket, and for this See also:act he was suspended. One authority declares that Roger, who was then with Henry II. in See also:Normandy, instigated the See also:murder of the See also:rival archbishop, but he swore he was See also:innocent of this See also:crime. He quarrelled with See also:Richard, the new archbishop of Canterbury, about the respective rights of the two archiepiscopal See also:sees, until 1176, when the king arranged a truce between them; and he was constantly endeavouring to assert his supremacy over the Scottish See also:church. The archbishop died at York on the 21st of See also:November 1181. He was always loyal to Henry II., to whom he was very useful during the great rising of 1174; but he has been accused of avarice, and he was certainly not lacking in ambition. Another See also:English See also:prelate of this name was ROGER, See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, a younger son of See also:Robert, See also:earl of See also:Gloucester, and thus a See also:grandson of the English king Henry I. In 1163 his See also:cousin Henry II. appointed him bishop of Worcester, but almost alone of the English bishops he supported Thomas Becket and not the king during the See also:quarrel between them in 1166. In 1167 he See also:left England to See also:share Becket's See also:exile, but he soon returned to See also:court, although he appears to have remained on friendly terms with the archbishop.

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Tours in 1199.

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