ABSTRACT
It has generally been thought that Archbishop William of Corbeil did not assume the same role of chief advisor to the king that his predecessors Lanfranc and Anselm had played. William of Corbeil returned from his disastrous visit to Rome in June 1123, stopping in Normandy on the way home, where he and Archbishop Thurstan of York had the opportunity to present their accounts of the visit to the king. Another charter, issued at a council in William's presence and that of the archbishops of York and Rouen, recorded Abbot William of Chester's surrender of his claims on the church of Calke and the return of everything that had been taken from the priory. It is unlikely that the priory was Augustinian at that early date, and a later charter of Archbishop Theobald noted that William of Corbeil had established regular canons there.
