Another important appointment was that of William's half-brother Odo as Bishop of Bayeux in either 1049 or 1050.

He left his half-brother Odo, the Bishop of Bayeux, in charge of England along with another influential supporter, William fitzOsbern, the son of his former guardian.

The pursuit of this aim led them to revolt against William in favour of Robert in the Rebellion of 1088, under the leadership of the powerful Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who was a half-brother of William the Conqueror.

The evidence for this is sparse and appears to derive almost entirely from the depiction of Bishop Odo of Bayeux wielding a club-like mace at the Battle of Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry, the idea being that he did so to avoid either shedding blood or bearing the arms of war.

Certainly, other Bishops were depicted bearing the arms of a knight without comment, such as Archbishop Turpin who bears both a spear and a sword named " Almace " in The Song of Roland or Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who also appears to have fought as a knight during the First Crusade, an expedition that Odo also joined.

It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England — not Bayeux — in the 1070s.

However, scholarly analysis in the 20th century concluded it was probably commissioned by William's half-brother, Bishop Odo who, after the Conquest, became Earl of Kent and, when William was absent in Normandy, de facto regent of England.

Odo, Earl of Kent | Bishop Odo of Bayeux

His half brother was Bishop Odo of Bayeux.

At this point the lower border of the tapestry shows a fleet of ghost-like ships thus hinting at a future invasion .< sup >( scene 33 )</ sup > The news of Harold's coronation is taken to Normandy, whereupon we are told that William is ordering a fleet of ships to be built although it is Bishop Odo shown issuing the instructions .< sup >( scene 35 )</ sup > The invaders reach England, and land unopposed.

Its assets were: The Bishop Odo of Bayeux held the monastery ( the site of the Cathedral ), the ' tide-way ' - which still exists as St Mary Overy dock ; the King owned the ' church ' ( probably St Olave's ) and its ' tidal stream ' ( St Olave's Dock ); the dues of the ' waterway ' or mooring place were shared between the ' King ' and Earl Godwin ; the King also had the ' toll ' of the strand ; and the ' men of Southwark ' had the right to a ' haw and its toll '.

Indeed, there was a plot in 993, masterminded by Adalberon, Bishop of Laon and Odo I of Blois, to deliver Hugh Capet into the custody of Otto III.

For many years it was thought that she had some involvement in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry ( commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French ), but historians no longer believe that ; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by English artists in Kent ..

After the Norman Conquest in 1066, Erith passed into the possession of Bishop Odo and is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror gifted Plumstead to his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux whom he also titled Earl of Kent.

The Domesday Book records the manor of Greenwich as held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux ; his lands were seized by the crown in 1082.

The Latin annotation embroidered onto the Tapestry above his image reads: " Hic Odo Eps ( Episcopus ) Baculu ( m ) Tenens Confortat Pueros ", in English " Here Odo the Bishop holding a club strengthens the boys ".

Whatever the reason, Odo spent the next five years in prison, and his English estates were taken back by the king, as was his office as Earl of Kent: Odo was not however deposed as Bishop of Bayeux.

Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought at Hastings ( 1066 ) before any such authorized champions of the church existed.

St-Calais studied under Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, the half-brother of the future William I of England, who was then Duke of Normandy.

Fetcham, therefore, was referenced in the Domesday survey as three manors ; one known as King's Manor was probably Fetcham Park ; another was given to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux after the Norman conquest.

The Bishop of Coutances then did the same, but in Norman French.

Godwin returned from exile in 1052 with armed forces and a settlement was reached between the king and the earl, with the earl and his family being restored to their lands and the replacement of Robert of Jumièges, a Norman whom Edward had named Archbishop of Canterbury, with Stigand, the Bishop of Winchester.

The lack of Norman response appears to have caused the Northumbrians to grow restive, and in the spring of 1080 they rebelled against the rule of Walcher, the Bishop of Durham and Earl of Northumbria.

Bishop King planned a smaller church, covering the area of the Norman nave only.

In 1115, with the area under Norman control, King Henry I of England appointed Bishop Bernard as Bishop of St David's.

Some of Smith's pipes still survive in the present instrument but, over the years, various builders have had a hand in its development, namely Nicholls, Hill, Bishop, Brindley, Norman & Beard and Henry Willis.

The church is said to have possibly replaced an earlier Norman church and an even older one built by St Felix, Bishop of East Anglia, about 630.

King Edward opposed the election and instead appointed Robert of Jumièges, who was Norman and already Bishop of London.

In Norman times a substantial, new stone abbey, primarily designed as a convent, was built on the old Anglo-Saxon foundation ( circa 1130 to 1140 AD ) by Henry Blois, Bishop of Winchester and Abbot of Glastonbury.

However, only two bishops in England or Normandy were monks ( Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester, and Serlo, Bishop of Séez ), and no monks other than Anselm of Canterbury, Ernulf, and Ralph d ' Escures, had been elected to an English or Norman see since 1091 ; recent precedent therefore favoured a clerk.

In the Foreword to Davies ’ biography of Phillpotts, Prof. Norman Sykes summarises the character of the Bishop:

Ranulf Flambard ( sometimes Ralph Flambard, Ranulph Flambard, or Ranulf Passiflamme ; c. 1060 – 5 September 1128 ) was a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham and an influential government minister of King William Rufus of England.

Roger ( or Roger le Poer ) ( died 1139 ) was a Norman medieval Bishop of Salisbury and the seventh Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England.

William de St-Calais ( also Calais or Carileph or Carilef ; died 1096 ) was a medieval Norman monk, abbot of the abbey of Saint-Vincent in Le Mans in Maine, who was nominated by King William I of England as Bishop of Durham in 1080.

In the reign of Edward the Confessor Newark belonged to Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who granted it to the monastery of Stow in 1055, who retained its incomes even after the Norman Conquest as came under the control of the Norman Bishop Remigius de Fécamp.

The 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and for a brief stint, Norman Fell.

** Thomas Moore ( producer ), Michael J. Bishop ( engineer ), Robert Spano ( conductor ), Norman Mackenzie ( chorus director ), Christine Goerke, Brett Polegato & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony ( Sym.

** Thomas Moore ( producer ), Michael J. Bishop ( engineer ), Robert Spano ( conductor ), Norman Mackenzie ( chorus director ), Christine Goerke, Brett Polegato & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony ( Sym.

** Michael J. Bishop ( engineer ), Robert Spano ( conductor ), Norman Mackenzie, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony ( Sym.

As the war turned favorable to him, Wladyslaw I, with the assistance of the Bishop of Krakow, Paul of Półkozic ( who was later imprisoned after rebelled against him ), managed to besiege and capture Wawel castle and forced the Silesian troops to retreat to Skała.

* Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, leads troops from England on an unsuccessful punitive raid against Welsh leaders Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

John I of Castile assumed the title and coat of arms of King of Portugal, which investiture was recognized by the Pope of Avignon, and ordered the deployment of his troops when the Bishop of Guarda and chancellor to Beatrice, Afonso Correia, promised to deliver the support of the people.

In 1604, a few months after its inauguration by the Bishop of Mechelen, the new chapel was looted by Northern troops.

The service included the funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officiated by Archbishop Yurij, Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, and Adrienne Clarkson, by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to one of her predecessors via video, as she and her husband were en route to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed in the Persian Gulf.

By 1975, when the Indonesian troops landed in Timor, he had become the assistant to the Portuguese Bishop of Dili, Dom José Joaquim Ribeiro.

The strike was broken on New Year's Day, 1 January 1812, when the Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, sent a detachment of troops from Durham Castle to force a return to work.

Bishop, who would later command a company of black troops in the American Civil War, was in nearby Martinsburg when Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 and, according to MacIntyre, Bishop wrote the first four verses of the song at the time.

In response to that, and particularly the arrest and exile of several vocal opponents by the Russian troops, namely bishop of Kiev Józef Andrzej Załuski, bishop of Cracow Kajetan Sołtyk, and hetman Wacław Rzewuski with his son Seweryn, Polish magnates Adam Krasiński, Bishop of Kamenets, Kazimierz Pułaski and Michał Krasiński and their allies decided to form a confederatio-a legal military association opposing the government.

Prior to the battle, Bishop Ronan blessed the troops.

In 1097 Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble and William, Bishop of Orange, went to Genoa and preached in the church of San Siro, in order to gather troops for the First Crusade.

On June 4 of 1525, the peasant's army was destroyed, with 8, 000 killed, just outside Würzburg by the troops of Georg, Steward of Waldburg-Zeil and the Bishop.

Duarte Costa formed a " Battalion of the Bishop " to fight on the side of the Constitutionalist troops, and helped finance the rebellion by selling off most of the diocese's assets, along with his own personal possessions.

Like other secret societies at the college, the Bishop James Madison Society fell victim to the hostilities of the American Civil War when William and Mary was occupied by Union troops and was forced to close its doors.

The Disaster Year ended on a positive note, as Coevorden was recaptured from the troops of the Bishop of Münster on December 30, 1672.

Henry V marched through the town in November 1415 with his troops prior to fighting the French at the Battle of Agincourt ; in 1422 Henry's body was taken to Holy Trinity Church by Edmund Lacey, Bishop of Exeter, who performed a funeral.

However, on 27 April 1792, French Revolutionary troops invaded the city and drove the Bishop out.

With the help of a traitor from within, Bishop Waldeck's troops took the city back on 24 June 1535.

It was fought between the Ulster Army ( Catholic ), commanded by Heber MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, and an English Parliamentarian army commanded by Charles Coote and composed of troops from the New Model Army and local Ulster Protestant settlers.

Another man of the clan, Donald Nicolson from Raasay, also helped to protect the Young Pretender during his flight after the defeat, and was recorded by Bishop Robert Forbes in The Lyon in Mourning as suffering torture for his refusal to reveal the whereabouts of the prince after arrest by government troops.

He vigorously opposed the action of Bishop Welldon, then metropolitan of Calcutta, in excluding Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of garrison churches in India because these had received episcopal consecration.

In 1097 Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble and William, Bishop of Orange, went to Genoa and preached in the church of San Siro, in order to gather troops for the First Crusade.