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Thomas

Archbishop of York

Installed unknown

Term ended 24 February 1114

Predecessor Gerard

Successor Thurstan

Orders

Consecration 27 June 1109

Personal details

Birth name Thomas

Died 24 February 1114

Beverley

Buried York Minster

Parents Sampson, Bishop of Worcester

Thomas II[a] (died 24 February 1114) was a medieval archbishop of York.

Contents
  1Life
 2Notes
 3Citations
 4References

Life[edit]
Thomas was the nephew of Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York,[1] and the son of the
elder Thomas' brother Samson, Bishop of Worcester. He was a royal chaplain, and
then Provost of Beverley Minster in 1092, both appointments he owed to his uncle. [2] He
was raised in the cathedral chapter at York, and the clergy of York trusted him,[3] and he
proved himself devoted to York's cause against the primacy of Canterbury. [4] Thomas'
brother Richard became Bishop of Bayeux in about 1108 until Richard's death in 1133.
[5]
 Thomas and Richard's sister, Isabelle of Douvres, was the mistress of Robert of
Gloucester, and their son Richard was Bishop of Bayeux from 1135 to 1142.[6]
Thomas became archbishop in May 1108[7] at the request of the dean and cathedral
chapter of York.[1] Because he refused to profess obedience to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, his consecration was delayed and formed part of the Canterbury-York
dispute. Thomas said that the chapter would not allow him to make a written profession,
and the chapter wrote as a body to Archbishop Anselm confirming this. Meanwhile, the
dean of York went to Rome to procure the pallium for Thomas, which was sent with a
papal legate. Anselm died in April 1109 without any resolution to the dispute between
the two archbishops.[3] Anselm had told the bishops before his death that he felt that
Thomas must make a profession of obedience, and obediently the bishops appealed to
the king's court to make Thomas do so. Henry I and his bishops finally decided against
Thomas, who capitulated[8] and was consecrated in London on 27 June
1109[7] by Richard de Beaumis, Bishop of London.[1] He received his pallium from
Cardinal Ulrich, the legate, on 1 August 1109. [3]
Thomas worked to extend York's metropolitan authority over Scotland, and
consecrated Michael of Glasgow as Bishop of Glasgow. Michael made a written
profession of obedience to York before his consecration. [2] Thomas also
consecrated Thurgot as Bishop of St Andrews, although Thurgot seems to have
managed to insert a reservation of his rights into his oath. [9] Other Scottish bishops he
consecrated were Radulf Novell as Bishop of Orkney and Wimund to as Bishop of Man
and the Isles.[2]
In the diocese of York, the archbishop founded the Hospital of St. John the
Baptist at Ripon.[10] He also created more prebends in his diocese, extending the work of
his two predecessors in introducing the Norman system of ecclesiastical government.
He is said have only been stopped from appropriating the relics of Saint Eata by a vision
of the saint. He also endowed the Augustinian priory of Hexham with lands and books.
[2]
 He had helped found the priory at Hexham when he expelled the hereditary priest
from the church and settled canons there from Huntingdon. [11]
Thomas died at Beverley on 24 February 1114. [1] He was noted for his chastity, but
equally noted for his gluttony, and died of overeating. [12] Thomas was buried in York
Minster near his uncle. Hugh the Chantor relates the story that Thomas one time when
ill was told by his doctors that he would only be cured by sexual intercourse with a
young girl. Some of Thomas' friends then attempted to introduce a young woman into
his household, but Thomas instead prayed to a saint, John of Beverley, and recovered.[2]

Notes[edit]
1. ^ To distinguish him from his uncle, also a Thomas who was
archbishop of York, Thomas is usually known as Thomas
II or Thomas the Younger.

Citations[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:        Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300:
a b c d

Volume 6: York: Archbishops

2. ^ Jump up to:          Burton "Thomas" Oxford Dictionary of National
a b c d e

Biography'
3. ^ Jump up to:a b c Vaughn Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan pp. 336-
357
4. ^ Barlow English Church p. 43
5. ^ Barlow English Church p. 58
6. ^ Spear "Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy" Journal of British
Studies p. 5
7. ^ Jump up to:a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 281
8. ^ Cantor Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture pp. 300-301
9. ^ Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 94
10. ^ Page History of the County of York: Volume 3: Hospitals: Rerecross,
Richmond and Ripon
11. ^ Burton Monastic and Religious Orders p. 48
12. ^ Barlow English Church p. 82

References[edit]
 Barlow, Frank  (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the
Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman.  ISBN  0-582-50236-5.
 Bartlett, Robert C. (2000).  England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings:
1075–1225. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.  ISBN  0-19-822741-8.
 Burton, Janet (1994). Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain: 1000–
1300. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge UK: Cambridge
University Press. ISBN 0-521-37797-8.
 Burton, Janet (2004). "Thomas (d. 1114)"  ((subscription or UK public library
membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford
University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27200.
 Cantor, Norman F.  (1958). Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in
England 1089–1135. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. OCLC  186158828.
 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of
British Chronology  (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  Greenway, Diana E. (1999). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300:
Volume 6: York: Archbishops. Institute of Historical Research.
Retrieved 14 September  2007.
 Page, William, ed. (1974).  A History of the County of York: Volume 3:
Hospitals: Rerecross, Richmond and Ripon. Victoria County History.
Retrieved 14 September  2007.
 Spear, David S. (1982). "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy,
1066–1204". Journal of British Studies. XXI  (2): 1–
10.  doi:10.1086/385787. JSTOR 175531.
 Vaughn, Sally N. (1987).  Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan: The
Innocence of the Dove and the Wisdom of the Serpent. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.  ISBN  0-520-05674-4.

Catholic Church titles

Archbishop of
Preceded by Succeeded by
York
Gerard Thurstan
1109–1114

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Bishops and Archbishops of York

Paulinus

Chad

Wilfrid

Bosa

John of Beverley

Wilfrid II

Egbert

Æthelbert

Eanbald I

Eanbald II

Wulfsige

Wigmund

Wulfhere

Æthelbald

Hrotheweard

Wulfstan I
Oscytel

Edwald

Oswald

Ealdwulf

Wulfstan II

Ælfric Puttoc

Cynesige

Ealdred

Thomas of Bayeux

Gerard

Thomas II

Thurstan

William FitzHerbert

Henry Murdac

William FitzHerbert

Roger de Pont L'Évêque

Geoffrey Plantagenet

Simon Langton

Walter de Gray

Sewal de Bovil

Godfrey Ludham

William Langton

Bonaventure

Walter Giffard

William de Wickwane

John le Romeyn

Henry of Newark

Thomas of Corbridge

William Greenfield

William Melton

William Zouche

John of Thoresby

Alexander Neville

Thomas Arundel

Robert Waldby
Richard le Scrope

Thomas Langley

Robert Hallam

Henry Bowet

Philip Morgan

Richard Fleming

John Kemp

William Booth

George Neville

Lawrence Booth

Thomas Rotherham

Thomas Savage

Christopher Bainbridge

Thomas Wolsey

Edward Lee

Robert Holgate

Nicholas Heath

Thomas Young

Edmund Grindal

Edwin Sandys

John Piers

Matthew Hutton

Tobias Matthew

George Montaigne

Samuel Harsnett

Richard Neile

John Williams

Accepted Frewen

Richard Sterne

John Dolben

Thomas Lamplugh

John Sharp

Sir William Dawes Bt

Lancelot Blackburne

Thomas Herring
Matthew Hutton

John Gilbert

Robert Hay Drummond

William Markham

Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt

Thomas Musgrave

Charles Longley

William Thomson

William Connor Magee

William Maclagan

Cosmo Lang

William Temple

Cyril Garbett

Michael Ramsey

Donald Coggan

Stuart Blanch

John Habgood

David Hope

John Sentamu

Stephen Cottrell, archbishop-designate

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