12th-century Bishop of London and Treasurer of England
Richard FitzNeal
Bishop of London
Appointed
15 November 1189
Term ended
10 September 1198
Predecessor
Gilbert Foliot
Successor
William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise
Other post(s)
Dean of Lincoln
Orders
Consecration
31 December 1189
Personal details
Born
c. 1130
Died
10 September 1198 (aged ~68)
Denomination
Catholic
4th Lord Treasurer
In office 1156–1196
Monarchs
Henry II Richard I
Preceded by
Nigel, Bishop of Ely
Succeeded by
William of Ely
Richard FitzNeal[a] (c. 1130 – 10 September 1198) was a churchman and bureaucrat in the service of Henry II of England.
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RichardFitzNeal (c. 1130 – 10 September 1198) was a churchman and bureaucrat in the service of Henry II of England. In 1158 or 1159 Nigel, Bishop of Ely...
derived. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. RichardFitzNeal wrote in the Dialogus de Scaccario (c. 1179) that the book was so called...
were relied upon heavily in the first 11 years. Aided by the capable RichardFitzNeal, he reformed the currency in 1158, putting his name on English coins...
practice of the English Exchequer written in the late 12th century by RichardFitzNeal. The treatise, written in Latin, and known from four manuscripts from...
streets were Mellitus, Earconwald, Osmund, Wulfstan, Gilbert Foliot, RichardFitzNeal, John Stokesley and Humphrey Henchman. The street is notable as the...
August 13 – Hellicha of Wittelsbach, duchess of Bohemia September 10 – RichardFitzNeal, bishop of London (b. 1130) November 27 Abraham ben David, French rabbi...
the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs. (Approximate date): Churchman RichardFitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II...
also cited the late twelfth-century book Dialogus de Scaccario by RichardFitzNeal. This book claimed that the Saxons and Normans had so merged through...
Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. possible date – RichardFitzNeal begins to write his treatise Dialogus de Scaccario ("Dialogue concerning...
his works Metalogicon and Polycraticus. Approximate date – churchman RichardFitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in charge of the royal Exchequer,...
1192). He was prior in the time of Richard de Balmeis II, Bishop of London (who died 1162), and also when RichardFitzNeal held the same see, from 1189 to...
Heebøll-Holm has however advanced arguments for its reality. In the 1170s RichardFitzNeal, in Dialogus de Scaccario, mentioned the continuing existence of the...
to the bishopric of Ely. Richard named three other bishops at the same time: Godfrey de Lucy to Winchester, RichardFitzNeal to London, and Hubert Walter...
Bishop of Rochester, but entrusted any archiepiscopal authority to RichardFitzNeal, the Bishop of London. The custom of giving the archiepiscopal authority...
account of how the Pipe rolls were created. The Dialogue was written by RichardFitzNeal, the son of Nigel of Ely, who was Treasurer for both Henry I and Henry...
and the fifth Lord High Treasurer of England. He was a relative of RichardFitzNeal and supposed descendant of Nigel, Bishop of Ely, both previous Lord...
the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs. (Approximate date): Churchman RichardFitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II...
earlier Bishops of London, Richard de Beaumis the elder and Richard de Beaumis the younger, Gilbert also referred to Richard of Ilchester, later Bishop...
Cistercians. Abbas Benedictus becomes abbot of Peterborough. Possible date – RichardFitzNeal begins to write his treatise Dialogus de Scaccario ("Dialogue concerning...
of Cambridge) c. 1158–1189 (res.): RichardFitzNeal (also Dean of Lincoln from 1184) bef. 1190–aft. 1202: Richard Barre c. 1210–aft. 1215 (res.): Stephen...
friendships with RichardFitzNeal, who succeeded Gilbert Foliot in the see of London; with William Longchamp, the chancellor of King Richard I; and with Walter...
Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. possible date – RichardFitzNeal begins to write his treatise Dialogus de Scaccario ("Dialogue concerning...
Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Reeves, (Richard) Ambrose". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership...
August 13 – Hellicha of Wittelsbach, duchess of Bohemia September 10 – RichardFitzNeal, bishop of London (b. 1130) November 27 Abraham ben David, French rabbi...