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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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224 GUALTERI MAPES [Distinc. V.<br />

ex episcopis adjutorem, turn quia Robertus frater ejus natu major<br />

Jerosolimis agebat, turn quia tunc adhuc exulabat Anselmus<br />

quern merito timebant. Girardus autem Herefordensis ignomi-<br />

niosus episcopus, pacto sibi sub juramento archiepiscopatu priore<br />

vacante, coronavit eum.* Videntes autem et scientes populi Hen-<br />

ricum justum et strenuum, annuerunt cum principibus qui tunc<br />

aderant, et acclamaverunt, et non fuit qui reclamaret. <strong>De</strong>cessit<br />

autem Alvredus Eboracensis archiepiscopus, vir illustris, qui<br />

Willielmo regi preedicto viriliter adversatus, ecclesiam suam ab<br />

, ipso fere solus conservavit integram et indemnem, aliis ab ipso<br />

laceratis. Aderat autem regi Henrico Girardus, pacto instans.<br />

Rex autem Simoniaci poenitens introitus, obtulit ei Herefordensem<br />

episcopatum ampliare fundis ad sequivalentiam archiepiscopatus<br />

praedicti et libertatem seternam quantam habet Dunelmensis epis-<br />

copatus, in quo nullus minister regius aliquid agere vel atten-<br />

tare potest; episcopi sunt omnes potestates et omnia jura. Girar-<br />

dus autem, diabolo plenus, omnia contempsit, et factus archiepiscopus<br />

multa fecit immisericorditer et immite. Quadam autem<br />

die post coenam apud Suwelle in pretioso tapeto pulvinari serico<br />

subnixus inter clericos suos obdormivit et expiravit.f Rex autem<br />

Henricus proficiebat in regno, et quamvis habuisset vitiosum<br />

ingressum, omnes decessores suos regimine tranquillo vicit, et<br />

divitiis et magnis per totum christianismum impendiis. Ter in<br />

anno vestiebat Lodovicum Franciae regem et plures principum<br />

suorum. Scriptos liabebat omnes comites et barones terrse suae,<br />

constituitque eis in adventu vel mora curiae suae certa exennia<br />

quibus eos honorabat, in candelis, pane, vinoque. Quemcunque<br />

juvenem infra montes Alpium audiebat captantem boni famam<br />

* Gerard archbishop of York was one Thomas, and not Alfred, archbishop of<br />

of the distinguished prelates of his age, York, in 1100.<br />

but he appears to have provoked the dislike f Archbishop Gerard died in 1108, sud-<br />

of the clergy by his liberality and attach- denly and without confession and absolument<br />

to profane literature, and they speak tion, which his clergy made an excuse for<br />

ill of him in their writings. He succeeded refusing him burial within the church.

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