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Roger, Bishop of Worcester (c 1134–1179)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2012

Richard Helmholz
Richard Helmholz*
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Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Notable English Ecclesiastical Lawyers: I
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 75 - 80
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5 The most recent opinion on this subject holds that it would be ‘surprising’ and in fact ‘improbable’ to suppose that Roger had no formal legal training. See Cheney, M, Smith, D, Brooke, C and Hoskin, P (eds), English Episcopal Acta 33: Worcester 1062–1185, (Oxford, 2007), pp xlviii–xlixGoogle Scholar.

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12 Cheney, Roger of Worcester, pp 317–73.

13 See eg Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis), Summa Aurea (Venice, 1574), book 1, De officio et potestate iudicis delegati, no 3.

14 Giraldus Cambrensis, Vita S. Remigii, p 345; perhaps he exaggerated, but the statement about Alexander's opinion of Roger cannot be entirely without substance. See also Knowles, D, The Episcopal Colleagues of Archbishop Thomas Becket (Cambridge, 1951), pp 22–23, 51–52Google Scholar.

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16 Gregorian Decretals, X 3.5.12. For an example of Roger's concern, see Acta, 33, no 229 (1164 x 1179), in Cheney et al, English Episcopal Acta, pp 154–155.

17 Gregorian Decretals, X 3.39.8.

18 Cheney ‘Pope Alexander III’, p 221.

19 Gregorian Decretals, X 2.14.5. The ins and outs of this process can be traced in Torquebiau, P, ‘Contumace’, in Naz, R (ed), Dictionnaire de droit canonique (Paris, 1935–1965), vol 4, pp 506–521Google Scholar; see generally Nörr, K, Romanisch-kanonisches Prozessrecht (Heidelberg, 2012), pp 72–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 Gregorian Decretals, X 2.28.11. The Pope here seems to have followed the Roman law on this point. See Cod 7.62.20.

21 Gregorian Decretals, X 2.28.1–73; Sext 2.15.1–12; Clem 2.12.1–7.

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23 See Brundage, J, Medieval Canon Law (London and New York, 1995), pp 194–197Google Scholar.