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Stigand

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Archbishop of Canterbury and favourite of Edward the Confessor, who advanced him to the bishoprics of Elmham and Winchester and to the Primacy in 1052; his appointment was popularly regarded as uncanonical, and neither Harold nor William the Conqueror allowed him to perform the ceremony of coronation; through William's influence was by the Pope deprived of his office and condemned to imprisonment.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Stigand'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/stigand.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.

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