Roger le Poer

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  1. Sometimes Roger Pauper [1] or Roger Poer [2]
  2. The chronicler William of Malmesbury calls him the nepos, or "nephew", of Roger of Salisbury, but this is a euphemism used to describe the sons of clerics in the Middle Ages. [4] William's description of Roger was that he was "a nephew or perhaps even a closer relation" of the elder Roger. [5]
  3. Some later historians applied the same name to his father, but this is not a contemporary attestation. [4]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Kemp "Roger Pauper" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. 1 2 Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 203
  3. Greenway "Salisbury: Bishops" Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 4
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Kealey Roger of Salisbury pp. 23–24
  5. Quoted in King King Stephen p. 55
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kealey Roger of Salisbury pp. 272–274
  7. Greenway "Archdeacons: Berkshire" Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 4: Salisbury
  8. 1 2 3 4 Huscroft Ruling England p. 73
  9. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology pp. 70–71
  10. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 103
  11. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 83
  12. Karn "Robert de Sigillo" English Historical Review p. 11
  13. King King Stephen pp. 68–69
  14. King King Stephen p. 70 and footnote 159
  15. 1 2 Crouch Reign of King Stephen pp. 95–98
  16. Yoshitake "Arrest of the Bishops" Journal of Medieval History p. 98
  17. Kealey Roger of Salisbury pp. 185–187
  18. West Justiciarship p. 24

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Roger le Poer
Lord Chancellor
In office
1135 June 1139
Political offices
Preceded by
Robert de Sigello
(Keeper of the Great Seal)
Lord Chancellor
1135–1139
Succeeded by