The Codex Regius was written down in the 13th century but nothing is known of its whereabouts until 1643 when it came into the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson, then the Church of Iceland's Bishop of Skálholt.

Codex Regius was written in the 13th century but nothing is known of its whereabouts until 1643 when it came into the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson, then Bishop of Skálholt.

Bishop Brynjólfur sent Codex Regius as a present to the Danish king, hence the name.

The manuscript first received special attention by the learnèd in 1651 when Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skálholt, with the permission of King Frederick III of Denmark, requested all folk of Iceland who owned old manuscripts to turn them over to the Danish king, providing either the original or a copy, either as a gift or for a price.

At first Jon refused to release his precious heirloom, the biggest and best book in all of Iceland, and he continued to refuse even when Bishop Brynjólfur paid him a personal visit and offered him five hundreds of land.

The manuscript was given as a present from Bishop Brynjólfur to King Frederick III in 1656, and placed in the Royal Library of Copenhagen.

Nothing is known of its whereabouts until 1643 when it came into the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson, then Bishop of Skálholt, who sent it as a present to King Frederick III of Denmark in 1662, hence the name.

It was part of the same gift from Bishop Brynjólfur to Frederick III.

Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson

Brynjólfur Sveinsson ( 1605 – 1675 ) served as the Lutheran Bishop of the see of Skálholt in Iceland.

Edward sent Ealdred after the death in battle of Bishop Leofgar of Hereford, who had attacked Gruffydd ap Llywelyn after encouragement from the king.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.

A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king.

Mellitus ( died 24 April 624 ) was the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity.

He arrived in 601 AD with a group of clergymen sent to augment the mission, and was consecrated as Bishop of London in 604.

In May 1840, the Bishop of Nice sent Paganini a local parish priest to perform the Last Rites.

Mathew sent missionaries to the United States, including the theosophist Bishop J. I. Wedgwood ( 1892 – 1950 ) and Bishop Rudolph de Landas Berghes et de Rache ( 1873 – 1920 ).

Poznań was probably the main seat of the first missionary bishop sent to Poland, Bishop Jordan.

The fourth is a response to Reparatus, Bishop of Carthage, who had sent him congratulations upon his elevation to the Pontificate.

In his relations with the Holy Roman Empire, where no more danger was to be apprehended since the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, Martin followed the moderate course taken by Gregory X. Rudolf I of Germany sent Bishop Henry of Basel to Rome to request coronation.

Within months he sent him as legate to the March of Ancona with the experienced Bishop of Marsico as his counsellor.

Sergius I did not attend the Quinisext Council of 692, but sent legates ( including his apocrisiarius and suffragan Basil, the Bishop of Gortyna in Crete ), who ended up subscribing to the canons as " holding the place of the entire synod of the Holy Roman Church ".

His teacher Giovanni da Legnano sponsored him at Rome, where Pope Urban VI ( 1378 – 89 ) took him into the Curia, sent him for ten years as papal collector to England, made him Bishop of Bologna in 1386 at a time of strife in that city, and Archbishop of Ravenna in 1387.

Through Bishop Mattias, Hemming Gadh and other swedish of high stature, Christian sent a quotation about retreat that was very advantageous for the swedes.

In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by Conrad II to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier.

Rudbeck, one of several sons of Johannes Rudbeckius, a former Uppsala professor who became Bishop of Västerås, was sent for a year to the progressive University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

* June – Frederick is sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of the abbey of Gandersheim.

Glycerius was sent to Dalmatia as Bishop of Salona.

Henry II sent Folcmar, the Bishop of Utrecht, ahead of him in order to attempt a peace negotiation between him and the conspirators.

In 996, Duke Bolesław I of Poland sent Adalbert, the longtime Bishop of Prague, to Christianize the Prussian people.

At the beginning of 1282 the Bishop sent their complaint to the Papal Legate Philip of Ferno, which was to address the settlement of the dispute.

Albert had been responsible for giving a rule to the Humiliati during his long tenure as Bishop of Vercelli, and was well-versed in diplomacy, being sent by Pope Innocent III as Papal Legate to what was known as the Eastern Province.

The later is the Chronicle of Alfonso III, which was revised in the early tenth century and preserved in two textual traditions that diverge in several key passages: the, preserved in the Roda Codex, and the, supposedly written by Sebastian, Bishop of Salamanca ( 910 – 913 ).

* Letter of Immo, chaplain at the court of Worms, to Bishop Azeko of Worms, preserved in the Lorsch manuscript, Codex Palatinus Latinus 930 ( Vatican Library ), ed.

In 1730 he published A System of English Ecclesiastical Law, extracted from the " Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Angli " of Bishop Edmund Gibson, for the use of students for holy orders.

Ihre was also the first to demonstrate that the text of the Codex argenteus manuscript in the Uppsala University Library is identical to the Gothic Bible translation by Bishop Wulfila.

The most famous example is the Codex Argenteus, most of what remains of Bishop Ulfilas's translation of the New Testament into Gothic, which was taken from Prague.

( This was similar to what happened with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who had been ordained against his will in the year 391 by a crowd cooperating with Bishop Valerius in the north African city of Hippo Regius.

The principal founder of the House was the late Bishop of Lincoln, Edward King, who was, at the time, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford.

Associated with King were William Bright, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and a great scholar ; Edward Stuart Talbot, Warden of Keble College and subsequently Bishop of Winchester ; Edwin James Palmer, Professor of Latin, Archdeacon of Oxford and later Bishop of Bombay ; Edward Woolcoombe, a Fellow of Balliol with a great interest in and support for the missionary movement ; and John Wordsworth, Chaplain of Brasenose College.

After this, in 1950, he became the Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, but after only a short time, in 1952, he was appointed Bishop of Durham.

* John Randolph, DD, Student of Christ Church, Professor of Poetry, and Regius Professor of Greek ; Bishop of London ; afterwards Bishop of Bangor, then of London ( 1783 )

* Rt Rev William Stubbs the Victorian Bishop of Oxford from 1889 – 1901, and Regius Professor of Modern History ( Oxford ) from 1866 – 84