About Gilbert Glanvill
Lived 1150 – 1214 (aged 63–64). Gilbert Glanvill was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Gilbert Glanvill or Gilbert de Glanville was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.
Life Glanvill was a clerk of Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury and the archdeacon of the Lisieux. He was elected bishop of Rochester on 16 July 1185. He was ordained as a priest on 21 September
In 1201, 5 acres of King John's demesne wood in Ospringe were given to him. He was forced to flee England with Bishop Herbert of Salisbury in 1207 during the dispute between King John and Pope Innocent III over the election of the new archbishop of Canterbury.
Glanvill died on 24 June 1214.
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Gilbert Glanvill was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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