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Saint Osmund (; 3 December 1099), Count of Sées, was a Norman noble and clergyman. Following the Norman conquest of England, he served as Lord Chancellor (–1078) and as the second bishop of Salisbury (actually Old Sarum). ==Life== Osmund held an exalted position in Normandy, his native land, and according to a late fifteenth-century document was the son of Henry de Centville, Count of Sées, and Isabella de Conteville, daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, who was the father of William the Conqueror (Sarum Charters, 373). He certainly accompanied William to England, proved a trusty counsellor, and was made Chancellor of the realm about 1070.〔Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 83〕 The same document calls him Earl of Dorset. He was employed in many civil transactions and was engaged as one of the Chief Commissioners for drawing up the Domesday Book. He became bishop of Salisbury by authority of Gregory VII,〔(Parker, Anselm. "St. Osmund." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 28 Mar. 2013 )〕 and was consecrated by Archbishop Lanfranc around the 3rd of June, 1078.〔Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 270〕 His diocese comprised the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Berkshire, having absorbed the former bishoprics of Sherborne and Ramsbury under its incumbent Herman at the 1075 Council of London. In his ''Acts of the English Bishops'', William of Malmesbury〔William of Malmesbury, ''Gesta pontificum anglorum'', 183.〕 describes medieval Salisbury as a fortress rather than a city, placed on a high hill, surrounded by a massive wall. Peter of Blois later referred to the castle and church as ''"the ark of God shut up in the temple of Baal."'' Henry I's biographer C. Warren Hollister〔Hollister, ''Henry I'' (Yale English Monarchs) 2001:36f.〕 suggests the possibility that Osmund was in part responsible for Henry's education; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, around 1080 to 1086. In 1086, Osmund was present at the Great Gemot held at Old Sarum when the Domesday Book was accepted and the great landowners swore fealty to the sovereign.〔Edward A. Freeman, ''The History of the Norman Conquest of England''.〕 Osmund died in the night of 3 December 1099,〔 and was succeeded, after the see had been vacant for eight years, by Roger of Salisbury, a statesman and counsellor of Henry I. His remains were buried at Old Sarum, translated to New Salisbury on 23 July 1457, and deposited in the Lady Chapel, where his sumptuous shrine was destroyed under Henry VIII. A flat slab with the simple inscription has lain in various parts of the cathedral. In 1644 it was in the middle of the Lady Chapel. It is now under the easternmost arch on the south side. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Osmund (bishop of Salisbury)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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