Guy of Amiens
Guy of Amiens († 1075), was bishop of Amiens of 1058 with its death. It was wire of Enguerrand I {{er}}, count de Ponthieu.
Intended for a religious career, he was educated with the Abbaye of Saint-Riquier, of which he was one of most brilliant pupils the. One of its mentors was the Enguerrand abbot (known as Wise the and dead on December 9th, 1045). Guy becomes perhaps archdeacon in 1045, then undoubtedly bishop of Amiens in 1058. Its predecessor on the episcopal see, Foulque II of Vexin, was taken in the fight which emerged between on the one hand, a secular clergy with the service of the policy of the feudal big families, and on the other hand, the reforming popes favorable to the monasteries, which often escaped the episcopal jurisdiction. When Guy reached the episcopate, it became the object of the procedures initiated against its predecessor. Finally, these litigations led to the suspension of its function of bishop, but it continued to occupy its station in the secular field.
It was in this state of papal disgrace at the time of the conquest of England by the Normands (1066). It is perhaps the reason which encouraged it to compose a poem, of which some support that it is about the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, with an aim of flattering William the Conqueror, which was very well considered by the pope. But if such were the case, the poême does not fill its objective. Guy was sufficiently in favor at the court Norman to become the Chapelain of the queen Mathilde, when it went in 1068 in England to be crowned there. But it had still not found its episcopal see when it died in 1075.
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