19 November 1190 A.D. Baldwin of Exeter—42nd of 105
Archbishops of Canterbury
Bevans,
G. M. “Baldwin of Exeter (Died 1190).”
Brittania.com. N.d. http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/bexeter.html. Accessed 7 May 2014.
Bevans,
Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
Toronto, ONT: University of Toronto
Libraries, 2011. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Archbishops-Canterbury-Gladys-Bevan/dp/B005HI57FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399493248&sr=8-1&keywords=bevans+portraits+of+archbishops+of+canterbury
Baldwin of Exeter
(Died 1190)
Abbot of Ford
Bishop of Worcester
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 1190
Baldwin was born in Exeter in Devon. He was appointed Archdeacon of that city by the Bishop of Exeter, but resigned the office and entered the Cistercian Abbey at Ford, of which he became Abbot. In 1180, he was made Bishop of Worcester and translated to Canterbury in 1185.
(Died 1190)
Abbot of Ford
Bishop of Worcester
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 1190
Baldwin was born in Exeter in Devon. He was appointed Archdeacon of that city by the Bishop of Exeter, but resigned the office and entered the Cistercian Abbey at Ford, of which he became Abbot. In 1180, he was made Bishop of Worcester and translated to Canterbury in 1185.
His pontificate was marked by a contest with the monks of
Christ Church, Canterbury which is of lasting interest. It led to the
establishment of the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lambeth, in
the face of Papal opposition exerted through the agency of the monks of Christ
Church. The contest arose, not only from the monks' resentment of the stricter
control which Baldwin endeavoured to exercise over them, but from the claim
which they put forward to a right in the election of the Metropolitan himself,
on the ground that when the Archbishop was also Prior of the Monastery, the
election always lay with them. To escape from this interference, Baldwin formed
the project of erecting a College of Secular Canons at Hackington, near
Canterbury. This project was frustrated by a Papal order but Baldwin obtained a
site at Lambeth, where he commenced the building of his College instead. The
unfinished building was destroyed after his death - vacante sede - through the
influence of the monks of Canterbury. A subsequent College, erected on
additional ground purchased by exchange from the Cathedral body of Rochester by
his successor, Hubert Walter, shared the same fate. The latter did, however,
succeed in fixing his own residence on the same ground, close to the centre of
the nation's life at Westminster. It has been the home of the Archbishops ever
since.
In 1190, Baldwin, having preached in Wales on behalf of the
Crusade, set out for the Holy Land, where he died soon afterward.
Edited from G.M. Bevan's "Portraits of the
Archbishops of Canterbury" (1908).
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