Note 1059 — Chapter VII · THE ENGLISH CHURCH. 1136–1149.

On the council of Paris see Labbe, Concilia (Cossart), vol. xxi., cols. 709, 710. As to the date, it appears from Jaffé (Regesta Pontif. Rom., pp. 626, 627) that Eugene reached Paris before Easter (April 20) and was there till June 11; so the council must fall in the interval. On William’s deposition see Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 134. “Hoc concilio” ought, by all logical and grammatical rules, to mean the council of Reims, held in March 1148, and of which Gervase has just been speaking. Accordingly most of his commentators (including the editors of the Fountains and Hexham books, and the compilers of the Fasti Eboracenses) say that William was deposed at the council of Reims; and then, as his successor was undoubtedly consecrated in December 1147, they are obliged to antedate the council of Reims by a year. But Gervase himself says, almost in the same breath, that the deposition took place in Paris. He has confused the two councils; see Pagi’s note to Baronius, Annales, vol. xix. pp. 7, 8; and cf. Joh. Hexh. (Raine), p. 154.