Godfrey (Archdeacon of Leicester)

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Godfrey was the second recorded Archdeacon of Leicester. [1] He was appointed by Robert, Bishop of Lincoln. [2]

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  1. ↑ University of Leicester
  2. ↑ Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester  . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.  59–63  – via Wikisource.

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