Bishop Ermenfrid of Sion and the Penitential Ordinance following the Battle of Hastings
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Bishop Ermenfrid of Sion is chiefly familiar to English historians on account his brief but important intervention in the Anglo-Norman kingdom year 1070. However, he occupied see for more than thirty years during a momentous period ecclesiastical and political history. Little evidence about him survives, it has never been fully assembled discussed; yet enough give passing interest course career details activities. This especially true affairs, Ermenfrid's part which needs be explained subjected detailed examination. But, generally, wider deserves brought into picture, sheds light some factors governed men's minds loyalties second half eleventh century.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History