Foliot, Gilbert

Foliot, Gilbert
(d. 1187)
   Bishop and Politician.
   Foliot was a native of Normandy and became a monk at the monastery of Cluny. He rose in the Church to become Prior of Cluny, Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford in 1148 and Bishop of London in 1163. An opponent of Archbishop becket, he supported King Henry II and in consequence was excommunicated. Foliot appealed to the Pope, who gave permission to the Bishop of Exeter to absolve him. Foliot then took part in the coronation of Henry’s son, again defying Becket, and he was excommunicated again. Although he was not involved in Becket’s murder, he was connected with it in the public mind and was not absolved until 1172. Many of his letters have survived and give an interesting picture of the life of the twelfth-century English Church.
   A. Morey and C.N.L. Brooke, Gilbert Foliot and his Letters (1965).

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