Bishop Jocelin de Bohun 1111-1184

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Around 1111 Bishop Jocelin de Bohun was born to Richard de Bohun de Méry.

In 1142 Bishop Jocelin de Bohun [aged 31] was appointed Bishop of Salisbury.

Annals of Six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet. 1170. Around the spring equinox the sea overflowed its bounds and swallowed up crops that were near it; and by this flooding the bones of a certain giant were uncovered in England, whose body, it is said, was fifty feet in length. King Henry, crossing into England, severely punished the sheriffs who had oppressed the people with exactions and robberies. After Pentecost the king of England summoned his son Henry [the Young King] to England and, since he had now completed fifteen years of age, had him anointed and solemnly crowned [on 14th June 1170] king by Roger, archbishop of York (while Thomas of Canterbury was still residing in the regions of France). Present at the coronation were the bishops Gilbert of London, Jocelin [aged 59] of Salisbury, Walter of Rochester, Richard of Chester, Bartholomew of Exeter, and Hugh [aged 45] of Durham. Roger of Worcester, however, was staying in Normandy.

1170. MARE circa æquinoctium vernale, limites suos excedens, messes quæ prope erant absorbuit: alluvioneque ejus ossa cujusdam gigantis in Anglia detecta sunt, cujus, ut ferunt, quinquaginta pedum erat corporis longitudo. Rex Henand crosses ricus, in Angliam transfretans, graviter punivit England. vicecomites, qui populum afflixerant exactionibus et rapinis. Post Pentecostem rex Angliæ, vocato filio suo Henrico in Angliam, fecit eum, cum jam quindecim annos complesset, per Rogerum Eboracensem archiepiscopum (Thoma Cantuariensi adhuc in partibus Gallicanis commorante) in regem ungi, et solemniter coronari. Interfuerunt autem coronationi Gilbertus Londoniensis, Gocelinus Saresberiensis, Walterus Roffensis, Ricardus Cestrensis, Bartholomæus Exoniensis, Hugo Dunelmensis episcopi. Rogerus vero Wigorniensis in Normannia morabatur.

In 1170 Bishop Jocelin de Bohun [aged 59] was excommunicated by Archbishop Thomas Becket [aged 50] ostensibly for having assisted in the coronation of Henry the Young King, son of Henry II.

Around 1st June 1179 [his father] Richard de Bohun de Méry died.

On 18th November 1184 Bishop Jocelin de Bohun [aged 73] died.

[his illegitimate son] Reginald Fitz Jocelin 1192 was born illegitimately to Bishop Jocelin de Bohun.

De Nugis Curialium by Walter Map Book 1. Jocelin, bishop of Salisbury, said to his son [his illegitimate son] Reginald of Bath, who had been elected by force but was not admitted to consecration by the archbishop of Canterbury and was lamenting it: 'Fool, fly quickly to the Pope, confidently, hesitating not at all, and give the man himself a good slap with a large purse, and he will wobble whichever way you want.' So he went; this one struck, that one wavered; the pope fell, the pontiff rose. And at once he wrote, lying about God, at the beginning of all his briefs, for where it ought to have been written 'by the grace of the purse,' he said 'by the grace of God.' Whatever he wished, he did.

Jocelinus Saresberiensis episcopus, filio suo Reginaldo Batoniensi, per violenciam electo, sed ad consecracionem a Cantuariense non admisso, plangentique, respondit, ' Stulte, uelox ad Papam euola, securus nichil hesitans, ipsique bursa grandi paca bonam alapam, et vacillabit quocunque volueris.' luit ergo, percussit hie, vacillauit ille ; cecidit papa, surrexit pontifex ; scripsitque statim in Deum menciens in omnium breuium suorum principiis; nam ubi debuisset scribi 'burse gracia', 'Dei gracia' dixit : quecunque voluit, fecit.

Ancestors of Bishop Jocelin de Bohun 1111-1184

Bishop Jocelin de Bohun