Osmund (bishop of Salisbury)
Osmund Sées (* Sées, Orne, † December 3, 1099 ) was Bishop of Salisbury and is a Catholic saint.
Life
Osmund or Osmond was born in the Duchy of Normandy in Sées the son of Henri de Cent Ville, Count of Sées, and Isabella. He was Earl of Dorset ( from 1070) and Bishop of Salisbury ( from 1078 ).
He was the confessor of William the Conqueror, but is referred to as his nephew, which can only be by his mother, who is a sister of William, in others as Isabella of Conteville and thus referred to as half-sister of William in some sources.
Osmund is one of those who were commissioned by William the Conqueror to the elaboration of the Domesday Books, the work in which all the possessions of the Norman knight in England, but were in other countries, as well as their genealogies recorded. Osmund was present when the book was accepted by the landowners, and they swore allegiance Wilhelm ( Freemans conquest ).
He accompanied William in 1066 in the conquest of England, was at the Battle of Hastings while, and was in 1078 the Bishop of Salisbury.
He was Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of England from 1070 to 1078 and Earl of Dorset since 1070. Domesday Book The following seems he owned in Derbyshire, Somerset, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to have had.
The Cathedral of Wiltshire, whose construction he has initiated, was consecrated on 5 April 1092. He trained missionaries founded a school for clerics to reorganize the Catholic rites, created the liturgy of Old Sarum, the Register of St Osmund, a collection of documents with the chronological order of the fairs, as well as everything a relationship with his had Diocese of Sarum (the old name of Salisbury ). His liturgical reform was adopted in the British Isles everywhere.
Death and beatification
He died on the night of 3 December 1099 and was first buried in Old Sarum, then in July 1457 in New Salisbury in a sarcophagus with the simple inscription " MXCIX " ( 1099 ).
Already in 1228 requested the Bishop of Sarum and his canon to Pope Gregory IX. the canonization Osmunds, but it was not until 1 January 1457 until he. Calixtus III of was canonized.