Walter Durdent

Walter Durdent
Bishop of Coventry
Appointed before October 1149
Term ended 7 December 1159
Predecessor Roger de Clinton
Successor Richard Peche
Other posts Prior of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury
Orders
Consecration 2 October 1149
Personal details
Died 7 December 1159
Denomination Catholic

Walter Durdent (died 1159) was a medieval Bishop of Coventry.

Durdent was consecrated on 2 October 1149. He died on 7 December 1159.[1] He was a Benedictine monk before his elevation to the episcopate.[2] He was prior of Christ Church Priory in Canterbury when he was elected through the influence of Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury. Walter was considered an excellent theologian.[3] During his time as bishop, he forbade the practice of selling the chrism used in various ecclesiastical rituals.[4]

Citations

  1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
  2. Knowles Monastic Order p. 629 and footnote 3
  3. Barlow English Church p. 101
  4. Cheney "Recognition of Pope Alexander III" English Historical Review p. 477

References

  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5. 
  • Cheney, C. R. (July 1969). "The Recognition of Pope Alexander III: Some Neglected Evidence". The English Historical Review 84 (332): 474–497. doi:10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXII.474. JSTOR 562481. 
  • 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. 
  • Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6. 

Further reading

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Roger de Clinton
Bishop of Coventry
1149–1159
Succeeded by
Richard Peche
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