Note 1324 — Chapter X · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE DEATH OF THE ÆTHELING TO THE DEATH OF THE KING.[1258] 1057–1066.
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Fl. Wig. 1061. Vita Eadw. 411. Æthelred Riev. X Scriptt. 387. The reason for these Bishops going to Rome for consecration is most clearly expressed in an incidental entry in Florence under the year 1070; “Ambo Romæ à Nicolao Papâ ordinati sunt, quando Aldredus Eboracensium archiepiscopus pallium suscepit: vitabant enim a Stigando, qui tunc archiepiscopatui Doruberniæ præsidebat, ordinari, quia illum noverant non canonicè pallium suscepisse.” See Appendix U. The King’s orders seem implied in the words of Gisa himself (Hist. Ep. Som. 16); “Ego quem Rex Edwardus, licet vitæ meritis indignum, Romæ direxit et à Nicolao Papâ ordinatum ... honorificè recepit.”