Herbert Poore, 1194—1217. 



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Herbert Poore, 1194 — 1217. 



The successor of Hubert Walter in the see of Sarum was 

 Herbert Poore. We have already spoken of him as the Archdeacon 

 of Canterbury, who was one of the administrators of the diocese on 

 the decease of Jocelin de Bohun, and who thought it his duty to 

 protest against Hubert Walter's election to the primacy. Professor 

 Stubbs thinks that some documents printed in Madox' Formulare 

 Auglieanum (pp. 47, 52) pretty well prove that he was the son of 

 Richard of Ivelchester (or Ilchester), first of all Archdeacon of Poic- 

 tiers, then Clerk of the Exchequer to Henry II., in that office proving" 

 himself an energetic man of business, and afterwards Bishop of 

 Winchester. However this may be, it may be observed, as a 

 coincidence, that Adam of Ivelchester was the immediate successor 

 of Richard Poore as Dean of Sarum. Herbert Poore would seem 

 in any case to have been one of the old officials of King Henry II., 

 and we meet with his name more than once as a witness to royal 

 charters, implying at all events that he held a high and responsible 

 position. 



Herbert Poore succeeded Geoffrey Ridel as Archdeacon of Canter- 

 bury, when the latter, in 1174, was promoted to the see of Ely. 1 

 He was one of the three Archdeacons whom Archbishop Richard 

 constituted, the other two being Savaric and Nicholas. But this 

 arrangement did not continue long, for in 1180 the Archbishop 

 abrogated his appointment and made a grant of the whole jurisdiction 

 to Herbert. 2 



It has been usual — an example may be found even in the pages 

 of Matthew Paris — to translate the name " Poore/'' or " Poer/'' by 

 the Latin c: Pauper/'' as if that were its equivalent. Professor Stubbs 3 

 thinks that the name may imply some connection with the Chancellor 

 Roger "le Poor/' of Salisbury, and so with Nigel of Ely, and 

 Richard Fitz-Nigel, and that so the brothers Herbert and Richard 

 Poore, who successively ruled over the diocese of Sarum, belonged 



1 Le Neve, I., 38. 



2 The grant is printed in Somners' Antiq. Cantuar, App. No. lix. See Batteley's 

 remarks on the date of this charter, Part ii., p. 251. 



3 R. de Hoveden, IV., xci., note. 



