supra^  p.  370) ;  but  Roger  and  the  Gesta  Ric.  (Benedict)  say  that  he
died  on  April  10.  If  so,  the  queen  will  have  transacted  her  business
with  him.
*  "Praeterea  litteras  d.  Papae  attulerunt  Turonensi  archiepiseopo
districte  injungentes,  quatinus  Eboracensi,  omni  contradictione  et
appellatione  cessante,  munus  eonsecrationis  impenderet"  Giraldus,
Vit,  Galf.y  i.  12.  The  Gesta  itself  (an.  1 191,  ii.  209)  says  it  was  Celestine
who  gave  the  order  to  Bartholomew  of  Tours  to  consecrate  Geoffrey,
and  who  sent  him  the  pallium.  The  same  Pope  also  ordered  Hugh  of
Durham  ("in  vi  obediential  praecepit")  to  tender  canonical  obedience


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secrated  at  St  Martin's,  Tours,  with  no  little  pomp.  The
abbot  of  St  Martin  (Marmoutier  -  lez  -  Tours,  Majus
Monasterium)  brought  him  the  pallium.  In  receiving  it,
GeoflFrey  took  the  usual  oath  to  receive  with  due  respect
the  legates  of  the  Roman  Church,  not  to  interfere  with
appeals,  and  to  pay  his  visit  ad  limina  every  third  year
either  in  person  or  by  deputy.^

The  chancellor  William  Lonchamp,  who  had  done  every-
thing he  could  to  prevent  GeoflFrey *s  consecration,  now
forbade  him  to  come  to  England,  on  the  ground  that  he
had  promised  the  king  not  to  enter  the  land  for  three  years.
The  new  archbishop  naturally  paid  no  heed  to  this  pro-
hibition, but  was  soon  on  English  soil  at  Dover.  The
satellites  of  the  chancellor,  however,  at  once  seized  him,
and  inflicted  the  greatest  indignities  upon  him.'

This,  however,  was  the  regent*s  last  act  of  tyranny.  The
clergy,  nobility,  and  people  were  indignant  at  this  outrage
oflfered  to  an  archbishop,  and  a  king's  son.  William  was
compelled  to  release  GeoflFrey,  and  to  fly  from  the  arms  and
anger  of  his  enemies  first  to  the  Tower  of  London,  and
then  abroad.
