Maurice (died 1107) was a Norman cleric and bureaucrat who served as the third Lord Chancellor, as well as Bishop of London.
Life
Maurice was Archdeacon of Le Mans before being named Chancellor in about 1078.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops He held the office until sometime between 1085 or 1086.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 83 He was nominated to the see of London on 25 December 1085 and consecrated in 1086, possibly on 5 April. He died on 26 September 1107Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 258 with his death being commemorated on 26 September.
In 1087, after a widespread fire, Maurice began rebuilding St Paul's Cathedral, possibly separate from the Anglo-Saxon church. In 1109 the cathedral was used for the consecration of the new archbishop of York, but it was probably not finished until about 1190. It was then one of the largest buildings in medieval England.John Schofield, St Paul's Cathedral before Wren (2011), 63-4
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