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Everard of Calne

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Elected
  
before 12 June 1121

Died
  
1146

Term ended
  
1145

Name
  
Everard Calne

Consecration
  
June 12, 1121

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Predecessor
  
Herbert de Losinga

Nationality
  
English

Successor
  
William de Turbeville


Buried
  
Fontenay Abbey, Cote-d'Or

Place of burial
  
Abbey of Fontenay, Marmagne, Cote-d'Or, France

Everard (or Everard of Calne; died probably 1146) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.

Life

Everard was from Calne in Wiltshire. He was a royal chaplain and held prebends in the diocese of London as well as an archdeacon in the diocese of Salisbury.

Everard was consecrated on 12 June 1121. He resigned the see in 1145 to be a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Fontenay in the Côte-d'Or in France.

Everard died on 12 October probably in 1146. He was buried at Fontenay before 21 September 1147.

References

Everard of Calne Wikipedia