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    egardless, Nigel was constantly at court, as shown by his appearance 31 times as a witness to...

    egardless, Nigel was constantly at court, as shown by his appearance 31 times as a witness to charters during the last 10 years of Henry I's reign.[22] This left little time for administration of his diocese, and Nigel appointed a married clergyman, Ranulf of Salisbury, to administer the...
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    Ely had until 1109 been an independent monastery, but its last abbot, Richard, had proposed to...

    Ely had until 1109 been an independent monastery, but its last abbot, Richard, had proposed to the king a plan by which the abbey would become a bishopric, presumably with the abbot himself as bishop. Richard died before the proposal could be put into operation, but in 1109, the custodian of...