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the last of the Anglo-Saxon prelates, was born at Icentum, Warwickshire, about 1007. He was educated at Evesham and Peterborough, and was ordained a presbyter at the usual age. He then became a monk at Worcester, and gradually rose in that monastery until at last he became prior. In 1062 he was chosen bishop of Worcester, and succeeded in rescuing that see from the control of the archbishop of York. He enjoyed the favor of William the Conqueror, and after him of his son Rufus. He rebuilt the Cathedral of Worcester; put down an insurrection of the adherents of Duke Robert of Normandy; and defended the city against an army of the rebels led by Roger de Montgomery. He died in Worcester, either on Nov. 23 or Jan. 19, 1095. He is not known to have written anything either in Saxon or Latin, though an attempt has been made to prove that he was the author of the entries in the Saxon Chronicle from 1034 to 1079. See William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum; Whartol, Anglia Sacra, vol. 2.