Hubert Walter

Hubert Walter ( * 1150 in Norfolk, † July 13, 1205 ) was an important adviser to the English King Richard the Lionheart and 1193-1205 Archbishop of Canterbury. 1194 to 1198 he ruled as Chief Justiciar the UK representative for Richard, because this was not in the country.

Walter was the son of a lower Barons. Since his family could not afford to attend university, Walter served as a clerk in his uncle Ranulph Glanville, Chief Justiciar of 1180 was. Walter had a career and was elected in 1184 as Dean of the Cathedral of York, he also rose to the Treasury ( Exchequer ). 1189, with the election of the new Archbishop of York, Walter was elected bishop of Salisbury and had already been to the inner circle of the King: He organized the recruitment of soldiers, and the procurement of funds for the Third Crusade. 1190 he sailed with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baldwin of Exeter, and his uncle Rainulf Glanville to Palestine. Because died during the siege of Acre in 1190, both Baldwin, and Glanville, Walter was the commander of the British contingent, to Richard the Lionheart arrived in June 1191. The battles against Saladin dragged under the command of Richard, until he was forced by mid 1192 coup plans of his brother Johann to return to England. Walter remained in the Holy Land and conducted the negotiations with Saladin. When Richard in captivity by the German Emperor Henry VI. came, it was Walter's task to collect the ransom in England from April 1193. He also agreed with Richard's brother John, who wanted to fight with the French King Richard, a truce. In the election of the new Archbishop of Canterbury 1193 Walter was elected as desired Richards and appointed at the same time also as Chief Justiciar. Since 1194 Richard moved on immediately after his return from Germany to France to lead there war against Phillip August, Walter England ruled as Chief Justiciar, until he resigned from this post in 1198. He then served as a negotiator in the failed peace negotiations with Philip Augustus, and was sent to the death of Richard in 1199 with William Marshal to England to prepare for John's coronation, he also crowned in May 1199. After the coronation Johann Walter appointed Lord Chancellor. The death of Hubert Walter in 1205 sparked a long-standing dispute between King John and Pope Innocent III. to the occupation of the Archbishop of Canterbury site.