Walter Durdent

Walter Durdent
Bishop of Coventry

Appointed	between April 1148 - October 1149
Term ended	7 December 1159
Predecessor	Roger de Clinton
Successor	Richard Peche
Other post(s)	Prior of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury
Orders
Consecration	2 October 1149
Personal details
Died	7 December 1159
Denomination	Catholic

Walter Durdent (died 1159) was Bishop of Coventry from 1149 to 1159.

Durdent was a Benedictine monk before his elevation to the episcopate.^[1] He was prior of Christ Church Priory in Canterbury when he was elected to Coventry through the influence of Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury.^[2] Walter was consecrated as Bishop of Coventry on 2 October 1149.^[3] He was considered an excellent theologian.^[2] During his time as bishop, he forbade the practice of selling the chrism used in various ecclesiastical rituals.^[4]

Durdent died 7 December 1159.^[3]

Citations

^ Knowles Monastic Order p. 629 and footnote 3
^ ^a ^b Barlow English Church p. 101
^ ^a ^b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
^ Cheney "Recognition of Pope Alexander III" English Historical Review p. 477

References

Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
Cheney, C. R. (July 1969). "The Recognition of Pope Alexander III: Some Neglected Evidence". The English Historical Review. 84 (332): 474–497. doi:10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXII.474. JSTOR 562481.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.