Herfast

Herfast
Herfast
	Bishop of Elmham; then Bishop of Thetford
Appointed	1070
Term ended	1084
Predecessor	Æthelmær, Bishop of Elmham
Successor	William de Beaufeu, Bishop of Thetford
Orders
Consecration	1070
Personal details
Died	1084
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Lord Chancellor
	In office; 1068–1070
Monarch	William I of England
Preceded by	first in office
Succeeded by	Osmund

Herfast or Arfast (died 1084) was the first Lord Chancellor of Norman England. He was also Bishop of Elmham and later Bishop of Thetford, after he moved his see there.

Life

Born in Normandy, Herfast joined William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England and was appointed head of the royal writing office after the Battle of Hastings. He was Lord Chancellor of England from 1068 to 1070.[1]

After serving as Lord Chancellor, he was consecrated Bishop of Elmham in 1070, but about 27 May 1072 he moved the see to Thetford, thus becoming Bishop of Thetford.[2] He had a conflict with the Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, and when the case was brought forward, the Archbishop of Canterbury Lanfranc ruled against Herfast.

He signed the Accord of Winchester in 1072.[3]

Bishop Herfast died in 1084.[3] He was a married bishop, and his sons held land in Norfolk at the time of Domesday Book in 1086.[4]

References

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 217 and 243. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Greenway, Diana E. (1971). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. volume 2: Monastic cathedrals (northern and southern provinces). pp. 55–58.
Williams, Ann (2000). The English and the Norman Conquest. Ipswich: Boydell Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-85115-708-4.

External links

Herfast 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Political offices
Preceded by first Norman Chancellor	Lord Chancellor 1068–1070	Succeeded by Osmund
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Æthelmær	Bishop of Elmham 1070–1075	Succeeded by see moved to Thetford
Preceded by see moved from Elmham	Bishop of Thetford 1075 – 1084	Succeeded by William de Beaufeu

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[Fryde81-1] Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

[Fryde217-2] Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 217 and 243. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

[BHONorwich-3] Greenway, Diana E. (1971). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. volume 2: Monastic cathedrals (northern and southern provinces). pp. 55–58.

[4] Williams, Ann (2000). The English and the Norman Conquest. Ipswich: Boydell Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-85115-708-4.

English Lord Chancellors under the House of Normandy (1066–1135)
William I (1066–1087)	Herfast (1068–1070) Saint Osmund (1070–1078) Maurice (1078–1085) Gerard (1085–1087)
William II (1087–1100)	Gerard (1087–1092) Robert Bloet (1092–1093) William Giffard (1093–1100)
Henry I (1100–1135)	William Giffard (1100–1101) Roger of Salisbury (1101–1102) Waldric (1102–1107) Ranulf (1107–1123) Geoffrey Rufus (1123–1133) Robert de Sigello (1133–1135)

Bishops of Norwich
Bishops of Elmham	Bedwinus Northbertus Headulacus Æthelfrith Eanfrith Æthelwulf Alherdus Sybba Hunferthus Humbertus See interrupted Aethelweald Eadwulf Ælfric I Theodred I Theodred II Æthelstan Ælfgar Ælfwine Ælfric II Ælfric III Stigand Grimketel Stigand (again) Æthelmær Herfast see removed to Thetford
Bishops of Thetford	Herfast William de Beaufeu Herbert de Losinga see removed to Norwich
High Medieval	Herbert de Losinga Everard of Calne William de Turbeville John of Oxford John de Gray Pandulf Verraccio Thomas Blunville Simon of Elmham William de Raley Walter Suffield Simon Walton Roger Skerning William Middleton Ralph Walpole
Late Medieval	John Salmon Robert Baldock William Ayermin Thomas Hemenhale Antony Bek William Bateman Thomas Percy Henry le Despenser Alexander Tottington Richard Courtenay John Wakering William Alnwick Thomas Brunce Walter Hart James Goldwell Thomas Jane
Early modern	Richard Nykke William Rugg Thomas Thirlby John Hopton John Parkhurst Edmund Freke Edmund Scambler William Redman John Jegon John Overall Samuel Harsnett Francis White Richard Corbet Matthew Wren Richard Montagu Joseph Hall Edward Reynolds Anthony Sparrow William Lloyd John Moore Charles Trimnell Thomas Green John Leng William Baker Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Samuel Lisle Thomas Hayter Philip Yonge Lewis Bagot George Horne Charles Manners-Sutton
Late modern	Henry Bathurst Edward Stanley Samuel Hinds John Pelham John Sheepshanks Bertram Pollock Percy Herbert Launcelot Fleming Maurice Wood Peter Nott Graham James Alan Winton (acting) Graham Usher