Stigand

Stigand (d. 1072) was archbishop of Canterbury and favourite of Edward the Confessor, who advanced him to the bishoprics of Elmham and Winchester and to the Primacy in 1052. His appointment was popularly regarded as uncanonical, and neither Harold nor William the Conqueror allowed him to perform the ceremony of coronation. Through William's influence he was deprived of his office by the Pope and condemned to imprisonment.

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