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    Nigel (c. 1100 – 1169) was an Anglo-Norman clergyman and administrator who served as Bishop of Ely from 1133 to 1169. He came from an ecclesiastical family;...
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    Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England...
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    The Bishop of Ely is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire...
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  • 3795 Nigel, an asteroid Nigel, a 1979 album by Nigel Olsson Nigel (bishop of Ely) (c. 1100–1169) Nigel (dog) (born 2008), a male Golden Retriever dog...
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    daughters, the most prominent of which was Ranulf de Glanvill, who became justiciar of England. In 1144, Nigel, bishop of Ely, instructed Hervey and Ranulf...
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    in Cotentin Nigel D'Oyly (Néel d'Ouilly), Anglo-Norman lord Nigel d'Aubigny (Néel d'Aubigny), Norman nobleman Nigel (bishop of Ely) (Néel d'Ely), Anglo-Norman...
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  • was a churchman and bureaucrat in the service of Henry II of England. In 1158 or 1159 Nigel, Bishop of Ely, paid Henry II to appoint his natural son, Richard...
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  • of Ely was an English churchman and the fifth Lord High Treasurer of England. He was a relative of Richard FitzNeal and supposed descendant of Nigel,...
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    nephew of Roger of Salisbury, a Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England under King Henry I, and he was also related to Nigel, Bishop of Ely. Educated...
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    abbot of Ely. The latter monarch established Ely as the seat of a bishop in 1109, creating the Isle of Ely a county palatine under the bishop. An act of parliament...
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  • was buried in Ely Cathedral. During his time as bishop, he built much of the western transept of Ely Cathedral. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology...
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    the start of 1140, Nigel, Bishop of Ely, whose castles Stephen had confiscated the previous year, rebelled against Stephen as well. Nigel hoped to seize...
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  • Nigel Bishop (born December 23, 1976, in St. George's, Grenada) is a Grenadian exfootball player. He served as striker for the Grenada national football...
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  • existence from at least 1107–1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely. Throckenholt was written as 'Trokenholt' in the 1240 Papal Rolls...
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    Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 August 2015. "Sutton St Edmunds CP". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth...
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  • Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780851157504. Karn, Nicholas (2007). "Nigel, bishop of Ely, and...
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    castle to c. 1070. Henry III of England granted a market to the Bishop of Ely using letters close on 9 April 1224 although Ely had been a trading centre...
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    The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United...
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    when he threatened Nigel, Bishop of Ely with suspension from office over what the art historian C. R. Dodwell has called Nigel's having "stripped-down...
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  • deprived Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Salisbury, and his nephews Nigel, Bishop of Ely, and Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, of their castles. According to...
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    Adelelm, archdeacon of Dorset and later dean of the diocese of Lincoln, and Nigel of Ely, bishop of Ely. Roger's son Roger le Poer was Lord Chancellor...
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  • Nigel de Longchamps, also known as Nigel Wireker, (fl. c. 1190, died c. 1200), Neel de Longchamps, or Nigel of Canterbury, was an Anglo-Norman satirist...
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  • subdue the Isle of Ely. Once Ely was quiescent the motte was abandoned. However it was refortified in 1140 during the Anarchy by Bishop Nigel but surrendered...
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  • British retired Church of England bishop. From 2008 to 2013, he was the Bishop of Huntingdon, sole suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Ely. Thomson was born...
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    Liber Eliensis (redirect from Book of Ely)
    books, it was written at Ely Abbey on the island of Ely in the fenlands of eastern Cambridgeshire. Ely Abbey became the cathedral of a newly formed bishopric...
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  • Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780851157504. Karn, Nicholas (2007). "Nigel, bishop of Ely, and...
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    St Peter's Collegiate Church (category Lists of coordinates)
    powerful political clique that included his nephews, Nigel, Bishop of Ely and Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. Stephen felt threatened by his over-mighty...
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    Bennett, Sean; Dutt, Nigel (2015). "The King's School Ely 1955 - 1969: The Fawcett Years". ISBN 978-1-3999-4481-6. "Ely Town Trail". Ely On-Line. Retrieved...
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    Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich – Bishop Nigel: privileged to have served Suffolk (Accessed 30 October 2013) Official announcement "Bishop of St Edmundsbury...
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    1147. Theobald of Bec, the Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated him at Canterbury, with Nigel, the Bishop of Ely, Robert, the Bishop of Bath, and William...
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