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STIGAND (d. 1072)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 917 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STIGAND (d. 1072) , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, is first mentioned in 1020. He was then See also:chaplain to Canute and afterwards to his son, Harold Harefoot, and after the See also:death of the former See also:king appears to have acted as the See also:chief adviser of his widow, Emma. In 1043 he was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Elmham and in 1047 was translated to See also:Winchester; he supported See also:Earl See also:Godwine in his See also:quarrel with See also:Edward the See also:Confessor, and in 1052 arranged the See also:peace between the earl and the king. In this See also:year the See also:arch-bishop of Canterbury, See also:Robert of Jumieges, having been outlawed and driven from See also:England, Stigand was appointed to the arch-bishopric; but, regarding Robert as the rightful archbishop, See also:Pope See also:Leo IX. and his, two successors refused to recognize him. In 1058, however, See also:Benedict X. gave him the See also:pall, but this pope was deposed in the following year. Stigand is said by See also:Norman writers to have crowned Harold in See also:January 1066; but it is now probable that this ceremony was performed by See also:Aldred, arch-bishop of See also:York. Stigand submitted to See also:William, and assisted at his See also:coronation. But the Conqueror was anxious to get rid of him, although he took him in his See also:train to See also:Normandy in 1067. In 1070 he was deposed by the papal legates and was imprisoned at Winchester, where he died, probably on the 22nd of See also:February 1072. Stigand was an avaricious See also:man and a See also:great pluralist, holding the bishopric of Winchester after he became archbishop of Canterbury, in addition to several abbeys. See E.

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Freeman, The Norman See also:Conquest (187o-1876), vols. ii., iii. and iv.; and J. R. See also:Green, The Conquest of England (1899), vol. ii.

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