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Jocelin, 1142—1184, 183 
Jocetin, 1142—1184. 
After Roger’s death the see of Sarum was vacant for three years ; 
—and eventful years they were. For on September 30th, 1139, five 
weeks only after the bishop’s death, the Empress Matilda landed in 
England. His decease, miserable as it was, may have been an 
escape from yet greater troubles; for his treachery to the Empress 
would never have been passed over, when, two years afterwards, she 
gained such an ascendancy in Wiltshire and was im possession of 
nearly the whole of England. 
It has long seemed strange to me that so little has really been 
known of a bishop who held the see for more than forty years. One 
reason is that a great mistake has been made respecting him. 
Hitherto, everyone has been calling him Jocelin de Bailleul. But 
he—Jocelin de Bailleul—was no bishop at all, but a household officer 
in the court of the Empress, who was with her at Devizes in 1142. 
He was still 2 court officer on the accession of Henry Fitz-Empress, 
in 1154. He was one of those whom Becket excommunicated at 
Vezelay in 1166, and that which probably originated the confusion 
between him and the Bishop of Sarum was that the latter was also 
excommunicated on the same occasion. . 
But Bishop Jocelin was a member of the great Norman family of 
Bohun.' He had been Archdeacon’ of Winchester under Henry of 
* The following table will shew Bishop Jocelin’s connection with the great 
family of Bohun, and those of his-own immediate descendants who held high 
offices in the Church :— 
Humfrey Bohun Edward of Salisbury 
surnamed ede eh (Sheriff of Wilts temp. Domesday), 
| 
Humfrey.=Matilda. 
Richard 
(or De Mai, Test. de N. 184). 
Gs Bohuns, Earls of Hereford. 
(daughter) "ipco de Cotentin.. 
[ | 
Seilses ‘ae Bohun aughter= .,.cccccccersoee © 
Justiciary of Normandy, I 
0b. s.p. ; | 
JOCRLIN==. 2. cosvassvevsceve Richard 
Bishop of Sarum Bishop of Constance, 
(1142—1184). 1151, ob. 1179. 
L 
Reginald rhts-Tooelin daughter=Geldewyn Fitz-Savaric 
Archdeacon of Sarum, c. 1150, of Midhurst. 
Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1174. * Savaric de Bohun 
ob. 1191, Treasurer of Sarum, ec. 1190, 
’ 
Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, 1192. 
ob. 1205, eee 
