In doing so, he became the first non-SAS person ever to fire a gun inside the close-quarters battle training house at Hereford.

In 1058, Harold also became Earl of Hereford, and replaced his late father as the focus of opposition to growing Norman influence in England under the restored monarchy ( 1042 – 66 ) of Edward the Confessor, who had spent over 25 years in exile in Normandy.

In 1974 Herefordshire was merged with Worcestershire to become part of the county of Hereford and Worcester, and Hereford became a district of the new county.

It was named for Lafayette Ward, a local who became a leader in introducing Hereford, Brahman, and Jersey cattle to Texas.

Walter Map later became precentor of Lincoln, a canon of St Paul's, London and of Hereford and, in 1196, archdeacon of Oxford.

The Hereford to Ledbury section remained open, but gradually became disused.

A meeting was held in Hereford to facilitate this on 13 April 1983, at which a canal society was formed, which soon became actively engaged in restoration.

While the original goal was preservation of the remains, in 1992 the society became the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust ( H & G Canal Trust ) and the aim became full restoration of the of canal and locks so that Hereford would once again be linked with Ledbury, Dymock, Newent and the rest of the inland waterway system at Gloucester.

Having been made prebendary of Exeter, of Wells and of York, he was consecrated bishop of Hereford on 17 March 1370, was translated to the see of London on 12 September 1375, and became Archbishop of Canterbury on 30 July 1381, succeeding Simon of Sudbury in both these latter positions.

The other part of these estates — including the Earldom of Hereford, which had belonged to Mary de Bohun and had then become incorporated into the holdings of the House of Lancaster — became a matter of contention in the latter 15th century.

Both the Earldom of Hereford, Earldom of Northampton and the Earldom of Essex became extant in 1373, reconfirmation of titles on heirs to be issued soon.

In 1563, he helped instigate an act of parliament under which the translation of the Bible became a priority for the bishops of Wales and Hereford.

In 1558, Walter's grandfather died and he became 2nd Viscount Hereford and 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley.

De Bohun was succeeded by his son Humphrey, who also succeeded his uncle and became 7th Earl of Hereford.

He was then returned for the county of Hereford, and Lord John Russell appointed him Secretary to the Board of Control, but a few months afterward he became Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs.

He conducted disputations with Roman Catholics ; Herbert Croft, who became bishop of Hereford, was claimed as Morton's convert to the Church of England.

With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and became an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being granted to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100.

Hereford and Worcester () was an English county created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 from the area of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire ( except Halesowen and Stourbridge, which became part of the West Midlands ) and the county borough of Worcester.

He became Chancellor of Oxford University, Bishop of Hereford and Lord Chancellor of England.

He was succeeded in the viscountcy of Hereford by his first cousin twice removed Sir Walter Devereux, 2nd Baronet, of Castle Bromwich, who became the fifth Viscount Hereford.

Mainly made up of farm land, its county seat is Hereford, known as the " Beef Capitol of the World ".

Dimmitt is south of Hereford, the seat of Deaf Smith County.

Before this, Hereford had become the seat of a bishopric.

Likewise, a brand of peanut butter known as Deaf Smith was manufactured by the Arrowhead Mills company, which was founded in 1960 by Frank Ford, then from Hereford, the seat of Deaf Smith County.

Of the castles built in this period the most famous are Ludlow, founded by Roger de Montgomery ; Bishop's Castle, which belonged to the Bishops of Hereford ; Clun Castle, built by the FitzAlans ; Cleobury Castle, built by Hugh de Mortimer ; Caus Castle, once the Barony of Sir Peter Corbet, from whom it came to the Barons Strafford ; Rowton Castle, also a seat of the Corbets ; Red Castle, a seat of the Audleys.

The Hereford seat has been abolished and replaced by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the North Herefordshire seat.

Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.

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

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

* Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford

* Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford

* June 26 – Robert, Bishop of Hereford

The session was held in January 1327, with Isabella's case being led by her supporter Adam Orleton, Bishop of Hereford.

The city gave its name to two suburbs of Paris, France: Maisons-Alfort ( population 54, 600 ) and Alfortville ( population 36, 232 ), due to a manor built there by Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hereford, in the middle of the 13th century.

This Council consisted of the earls of Leicester, Gloucester, Norfolk, Warwick, Hereford, the Count of Aumale, Peter of Savoy, John fitzGeoffrey, Peter de Montfort, Richard Grey, Roger Mortimer, James Audley, John Maunsell, Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester as well as Boniface.

He may have received training in the Liberal Arts at Hereford, in light of his connection to the Bishop of Hereford in the 1190s and a recommendation from Giraldus Cambrensis.

The new building was consecrated by Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, in 1282, and was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and Saint Mary.

Herbert Westfaling, the Bishop of Hereford, left enough property to support two fellowships and scholarships ( with the significant proviso that " my kindred shallbe always preferred before anie others ").

Peckham also fought with Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford over the right to visit subordinate clergy.

He was a candidate to succeed William de Vere as Bishop of Hereford in 1199, but was unsuccessful.

* 1089 Foundation stone of the new abbey church laid by Robert de Losinga, Bishop of Hereford.

In 675 he removed Winfred from his position as Bishop of Lichfield, and over the next four years he divided the vast Mercian see into the five dioceses of Leicester, Lichfield, Worcester, Dorchester and Hereford.

Bethune, the Bishop of Hereford, died during the council, and Eugene nominated Foliot as his successor at Theobald's urging.

At first Theobald was in exile at St Omer, where he consecrated Gilbert Foliot as Bishop of Hereford.

He attempted to secure the right of Gilbert Foliot to remain Abbot of Gloucester after Foliot's election as Bishop of Hereford, but a new abbot was elected by the monks of Gloucester.

Others who studied for a time in Theobald's household were Roger de Pont L ' Evêque, later Archbishop of York, John Belemis, later Archbishop of Lyons, John de Pageham, later Bishop of Worcester, Bartholomew Iscanus, later Bishop of Exeter, William of Northall, later Bishop of Worcester, and William de Vere, later Bishop of Hereford.