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Also known as Ernulf of Rochester

Ernulf (1040 – 15 March 1124) was a French Benedictine monk who became prior of Christ Church in Canterbury, abbot of Peterborough, and bishop of Rochester in England. A jurist and an architect as well, he was responsible for greatly expanding Canterbury Cathedral during his time there.

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1040
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1124
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  • Registers of the bishops of Chichester, 1396-1675; Gloucester, 1541-1681; and Rochester, 1319-1683
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  • Textus roffensis. Accedunt, professionum antiquorum Angliæ episcoporum formulæ, de canonica obedientia archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus præstanda, et Leonardi Hutteni dissertatio, anglice conscripta, de antiquitatibus Oxoniensibus. E codicibus MSS. descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius

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Ernulf (1040 – 15 March 1124) was a French Benedictine monk who became prior of Christ Church in Canterbury, abbot of Peterborough, and bishop of Rochester in England. A jurist and an architect as well, he was responsible for greatly expanding Canterbury Cathedral during his time there.

==Life== Ernulf was born in 1040 in Beauvais, France. He studied under Lanfranc at the monastery of Bec, entered the Benedictine Order, and lived at the , Beauvais. At the suggestion of Lanfranc, he went to England some time after 1070 and joined the monks of Canterbury. He studied under Ivo of Chartres and was considered an expert on canon law.

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