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Coutances ' nephew, John of Coutances, became Archdeacon of Oxford and Dean of Rouen under Walter's influence, and later Bishop of Worcester.
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Coutances and John
At the monastic cathedral of Worcester, he disciplined the monks between the death of Henry de Sully and the election of John of Coutances, as was his right as the archbishop of the province.
News of the dispute reached Richard, who sent Walter de Coutances, the Archbishop of Rouen, to England in late spring 1191, with orders to negotiate a peace between John and Longchamp.
Coutances succeeded in securing a peace between Longchamp and John, but further actions by Longchamp led to the justiciar's expulsion from England, replaced in his role by Coutances, even though he never formally used the title.
After Richard's death, Coutances invested Prince John as Duke of Normandy, but was forced to pay 2, 100 angevin pounds to secure contested rights from the new king.
During the 1170s a group of royal clerks rose to prominence, among them Coutances, Walter Map, Ralph Diceto, John of Oxford, Richard of Ilchester, and Geoffrey Ridel.
Coutances helped the schools in the city of Lincoln, acting as the patron for scholars such as John of Tynemouth and Simon of Southwell.
At Whitsun in 1189, Coutances was a member of a commission appointed by the papal legate John of Anagni to arbitrate the dispute between King Henry II of England and his son, Richard, who was supported by King Philip II of France.
During 1191 the citizens of the city of London managed to acquire from Coutances and Prince John the recognition that the city was self-governing, something they had been attempting to secure for a number of years.
John contested the right of the archbishop to some jurisdictional rights however, as well as forest rights, forcing Coutances to pay 2, 100 angevin pounds in order to secure most of the contested rights.
In May 1200, Coutances was involved in the peace treaty of Le Goulet between King John and King Philip of France, but took no active part in the Angevin defence of Normandy.
When John lost the duchy in 1204, Coutances did not resist the government of King Philip II, although he did not make his complete peace with Philip until March 1207.
The historian John Gillingham called Coutances " one of the great fixers " of his time.
The medieval poet John de Hanville dedicated a satirical poem on the tribulations of a poor scholar to Coutances.
After the Norman Conquest Chaffcombe was granted to the Bishop of Coutances under whom it was held by Ralph le Sor until it was acquired by Oliver Avenel ( died 1226 ) and inherited by his descendants until 1613 when John Poulett of Hinton St George became lord of the manor and stayed in the Poulett family until 1913.
Coutances and became
After the Norman Conquest the manor was held by the Bishop of Coutances and later reverted to the crown, after which William II gave it to a merchant from Bristol known as Harding and then to his son Robert Fitzharding who became Lord of Berkeley.
When Richard I, King Henry's son, became king in 1189, Coutances absolved Richard for his rebellion against his father and invested him as Duke of Normandy.
Coutances became a hostage for the final payment of Richard's ransom on the king's release in February 1194.
On 4 February, Coutances became a hostage to the German emperor for the payment of the outstanding portion of Richard's ransom, and the king was released.
Before the Norman Conquest lordship was held by Ulf Fenman, and after by Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances, who also became Tenant-in-chief.
Coutances and Oxford
For over 500 years the land, part of the ancient manor of Kensington, was under the lordship of the Vere family, the Earls of Oxford and descendants of Aubrey de Vere I, who held the manor of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, in Domesday Book in 1086.
In February 1193 Coutances summoned a council to Oxford, to address problems of administration and defence after the recently received news of Richard's captivity in Germany.
For over 500 years the land, part of the ancient manor of Kensington, was under the lordship of the Vere family, Earls of Oxford and descendants of Aubrey de Vere I, who held the manor of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, in the Domesday Book in 1086.
Coutances and Rouen
At this point Walter of Coutances, the Archbishop of Rouen, returned to England, having been sent by Richard to restore order.
When many Norman towns ( Alençon, Rouen, Caen, Coutances, Bayeux ) joined the Protestant Reformation, battles ensued throughout the province.
Walter de Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, was reluctant to sell the manor as it was one of the diocese's most profitable, and other lands belonging to the diocese had recently been damaged by war.
Construction began with the interdict hanging over Normandy, but it was later repealed in April 1197 by Pope Celestine III, after Richard made gifts of land to Walter de Coutances and the diocese of Rouen, including two manors and the prosperous port of Dieppe.
Town after town surrendered: in 1141, Verneuil, Nonancourt, Lisieux, Falaise ; in 1142, Mortain, Saint-Hilaire, Pontorson ; in 1143, Avranches, Saint-Lô, Cérences, Coutances, Cherbourg ; in the beginning of 1144 he entered Rouen, and on 19 January received the ducal crown in its cathedral.
Walter de Coutances ( or Walter of Coutances or Walter of Rouen ; died 16 November 1207 ) was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Rouen.
By 1169 Coutances held a canonry in Rouen Cathedral.
On 17 November 1184 Coutances was translated to the diocese of Rouen, becoming Archbishop of Rouen.
Coutances hesitated about the translation to Rouen, as the see there was poorer than Lincoln, but as an archbishopric rather than a bishopric it was of a higher status.
Coutances also invested Richard as Duke of Normandy in a ceremony held in Rouen, before accompanying Richard to England, where he participated in the new king's coronation, on 3 September 1189.
Although Coutances was absent from Rouen for most of the period between 1190 to 1194, he remained an active archbishop.
Coutances died on 16 November 1207 and was buried at Rouen Cathedral, in the chapel of Saints Peter and Paul.
His friendships with Richard Fitz Nigel, who succeeded Foliot in the see of London, with William Longchamp, the chancellor of Richard I, and with Walter de Coutances, the archbishop of Rouen, gave him excellent opportunities of collecting information.
Granville once formed part of the diocese of Coutances, the Parliament of Rouen and the intendance of Caen.
Coutances and under
Other rebels from Dorset, Somerset and neighbouring areas besieged Montacute Castle but were defeated by a Norman army gathered from London, Winchester and Salisbury under Geoffrey of Coutances.
The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August, driving south through Coutances, Avranches, and Vitré, and across the Mayenne River to seize the city of Le Mans, 8 August.
Following the Norman Conquest William the Conqueror gave large parts of north Somerset, including the manor or Norton to Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, and Norton was held under him by Ulveva.
Of those justices appointed, like his predecessor in the justiciarship, Coutances used justices from a wide range of backgrounds, and many of those sent out on itinerent rounds were local to the area, rather than the increasingly professional justices used under Coutances ' successor Hubert Walter.
Coutances and influence
With his uncle as Pope, he obtained great influence, and he held no fewer than eight bishoprics, including Lausanne from 1472, and Coutances from 1476, along with the archbishopric of Avignon.
Obtaining as a young man, in 1048, the see of Coutances, by his brother's influence ( see Mowbray ), he raised from his fellow nobles and from their Sicilian spoils funds for completing his cathedral, which was consecrated in 1056.
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