Peter des Roches

Peter des Roches
Bishop of Winchester
Head of the effigy on Roches' tomb in Winchester Cathedral
Appointed1205
Term ended9 June 1238
PredecessorRichard Poore
SuccessorRalph Neville
Other post(s)Precentor of Lincoln
Archdeacon of Poitiers
Orders
Consecration24 March 1206
by Pope Innocent III
Personal details
Died9 June 1238
DenominationCatholic
Chief Justiciar of England
In office
1213–c. 1215
MonarchsJohn
Henry III
Preceded byGeoffrey Fitz Peter
Succeeded byHubert de Burgh

Peter des Roches (died 9 June 1238) (Latinised as Petrus de Rupibus ("Peter from the rocks")) was bishop of Winchester in the reigns of King John of England and his son Henry III. He was not an Englishman, but rather a native of the Touraine, in north-central France.[1][2]

  1. ^ Rhodes, Walter Eustace (1896). "Peter des Roches" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. pp. 52–56.
  2. ^ Vincent Peter des Roches p. 18.

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