Chancellor of Oxford, banished from England after speaking against the King during the Baron's War. Returning during the reign of Edward I, he rose to the position of Bishop of Hereford. His uncle Walter had been Bishop of the neighbouring see at Worcester. His tomb is one of the few remaining Saint's shrines in England.
He was first buried in the Orvieto Abbazia di Santi Severo e Martirio, Umbria, Italy.
"His heart he had bequeathed to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, his friend, who placed it in the monastery of Ashridge. His bones also were conveyed to England and laid to rest in Hereford Cathedral."
[Washburn, G. C., _Witter Genealogy: Descendants of William Witter of Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1639-1659_, p. 257.]
He was first buried in the Orvieto Abbazia di Santi Severo e Martirio, Umbria, Italy.
"His heart he had bequeathed to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, his friend, who placed it in the monastery of Ashridge. His bones also were conveyed to England and laid to rest in Hereford Cathedral."
[Washburn, G. C., _Witter Genealogy: Descendants of William Witter of Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1639-1659_, p. 257.]
Chancellor of Oxford, banished from England after speaking against the King during the Baron's War. Returning during the reign of Edward I, he rose to the position of Bishop of Hereford. His uncle Walter had been Bishop of the neighbouring see at Worcester. His tomb is one of the few remaining Saint's shrines in England.
He was first buried in the Orvieto Abbazia di Santi Severo e Martirio, Umbria, Italy.
"His heart he had bequeathed to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, his friend, who placed it in the monastery of Ashridge. His bones also were conveyed to England and laid to rest in Hereford Cathedral."
[Washburn, G. C., _Witter Genealogy: Descendants of William Witter of Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1639-1659_, p. 257.]
He was first buried in the Orvieto Abbazia di Santi Severo e Martirio, Umbria, Italy.
"His heart he had bequeathed to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, his friend, who placed it in the monastery of Ashridge. His bones also were conveyed to England and laid to rest in Hereford Cathedral."
[Washburn, G. C., _Witter Genealogy: Descendants of William Witter of Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1639-1659_, p. 257.]
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