Roger de Clinton

Roger de Clinton (died 1148) was a medieval Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. He was responsible for organising a new grid street plan for the town of Lichfield in the 12th century which survives to this day.

Roger de Clinton
Bishop of Coventry
Appointed	October 1129
Term ended	16 April 1148
Predecessor	Robert Peche
Successor	Walter Durdent
Other post(s)	Archdeacon, either of Buckingham or Lincoln
Orders
Consecration	22 December 1129
Personal details
Died	16 April 1148
Denomination	Catholic

Life

Clinton was the nephew of Geoffrey de Clinton, an advisor to King Henry I of England.^[1]

Clinton had been an archdeacon before his elevation to the episcopate,^[2] either of Buckingham (1119–1129)^[1] or of Lincoln (c.1129).^[3] Geoffrey de Clinton was said to have promised King Henry three thousand marks if the king would appoint Roger a bishop.^[1][4] Roger was nominated in October 1129, and consecrated on 22 December 1129.^[5] Roger was part of the deputation to the papal curia in 1139 that defended King Stephen of England against the charge of breaking his oath to the Empress Matilda.^[1] Another member of the delegation included Arnulf of Lisieux, who was an archdeacon at the time, but who presented the case.^[6] Roger also attended the Second Lateran Council in 1139.^[7] The Gesta Stephani claimed that Roger was heavily involved in military affairs during the reign of King Stephen.^[1]

Clinton died on 16 April 1148.^[5] Clinton was responsible for establishing Buildwas Abbey,^[8] a Cistercian house in Shropshire in 1135.

Citations

1. Barlow English Church p. 87
2. Cantor Church Kingship and Lay Investiture p. 292 footnote 115
3. Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 400
4. Chibnall Anglo-Norman England p. 80
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
6. Schriber Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux p. 16
7. Barlow English Church p. 112
8. Burton Monastic and Religious Orders p. 229

References

• Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
• Bartlett, Robert C. (2000). England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822741-8.
• Burton, Janet (1994). Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain: 1000–1300. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37797-8.
• Cantor, Norman F. (1958). Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in England 1089–1135. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. OCLC 186158828.
• Chibnall, Marjorie (1986). Anglo-Norman England 1066–1166. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-15439-6.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Schriber, Carolyn Poling (1990). The Delimma of Arnulf of Lisieux: New Ideas versus Old Ideals. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-35097-2.

Further reading

• Franklin, M. J. "Clinton, Roger of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95152. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Robert Peche	Bishop of Coventry 1129–1148	Succeeded by Walter Durdent