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3 unusual facts about Peter of Aigueblanche


Peter of Aigueblanche

He then served as a papal judge-delegate, judging a case for the papacy that had been referred back to England, this one involving a dispute between King Henry and Jocelin of Wells, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, over Glastonbury Abbey.

While bishop, Peter founded a church in Savoy, at Aiguebelle, where he established the liturgy of the mass that was then in use in his bishopric, the Use of Hereford.

Roger de Leybourne

In 1263 he along with other Marcher Lords arrested Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hertford, and seized Hereford, Gloucester, and Bristol, returning south to assault Windsor Castle.



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