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and, with that, of the other his/her preferments, on three motives: he had contained
Winchester together with the record; he had contained the record while Robert
still it was the correct archbishop according to the laws of the Church;
and he had gotten his/her pallium and his/her only recognition from the
antipope Benedict X. His/her brother, the Episcopalian one of Elmham was also deposed,
and some abbots to the same duration.
A reporter English of a small later date, Florence of Worcester,
undoubtedly representing the opinion of those contemporary that were
unfavourable to the Normans, believed that for a lot of of these depositions
there were no canonical motives, but that they was due to the king
you desire to have the help of the Church in holding and to reconcile his new
kingdom. We can admit the motive and his/her probable influence on the actions
of the time, without neglecting the fact that would be probable to
is a honest difference in the interpretation of canonical rights and
bad on the Norman ones and the sides English, and that the Normans is
more probable to be corrected according to the prevailing standard of the
Church. The same reporter gives us interesting evidence of the
feeling native and contemporary on this suggestion and the way the rights of
the English would probably be essays of it, in to record the fact that
you/he/she was thought that it was a daring thing for the bishop English Wulfstan, of
Worcester, to demand his/her rights in the certain earths in which you/he/she had held Aldred
his/her possession when he was transferred by the sees of Worcester to the
archbishop's palace in York. The case was deferred, up to that there you/he/she should be a
archbishop of York to defend the rights of his/her Church but the brave
bishop didn't have anything to lose from his/her boldness. The treatment of the Church
in everything of his/her kingdom the evidence of the desire of William to act according to it is
established law, although it is also evidence of his/her dominant belief that the
new law was superior to the old one, if a conflict ever rose among them.