Everything about Osbern Fitzosbern totally explained
Osbern FitzOsbern (c.1032–1103) was an
Anglo-Norman churchman.
Life
He was a relative of King
Edward the Confessor as well as being a royal chaplain. During Edward's reign he received the church at Bosham, near Chichester. He was a steward for King
William I of England during his reign, as well as being a friend of the king. The story that he became William's chancellor is based entirely on a charter that modern historians have declared mostly spurious. Osbern didn't attend the church council held by
Anselm, the new Archbishop of Canterbury in 1102, as he was ill. He became embroiled in a dispute with the monks of
Battle Abbey, who had established a priory in Exeter. The cathedral chapter of Exeter objected to the priory establishing a graveyard or ringing their bells, and both sides appealed to Anselm, who ruled in Battle's favor on the bell issue. The dispute over the graveyard was still ongoing in 1102, when
Pope Paschal II wrote to Osbern ordering the him to allow the priory to establish a graveyard for their benefactors.
He died in 1103, having gone blind before his death.
William fitz Osbern, 1st Earl of Hereford was his brother. Their father was
Osbern de Crépon, a guardian and
seneschal to the young Duke William.
Frank Barlow, a medieval historian, described Osbern as "unsociable".
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