Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Walter de Coutances

Walter de Coutances
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 16, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 16:31, 27 October 2013‎ (UTC)



Walter de Coutances was a medieval Anglo-Norman Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Rouen. He began his royal service in the government of Henry II, serving as a vice-chancellor. He also accumulated a number of ecclesiastical offices, becoming successively canon of Rouen Cathedral (pictured), treasurer of Rouen, and Archdeacon of Oxford. King Henry sent him on a number of diplomatic missions, and finally rewarded him with the Bishopric of Lincoln in 1183. He did not remain there long, for he was translated to the archbishopric of Rouen in late 1184. When Richard I, King Henry's son, became king in 1189, Coutances absolved Richard for his rebellion against his father and invested him as Duke of Normandy. He then accompanied Richard to Sicily as the king began the Third Crusade, but events in England prompted Richard to send the archbishop back to England to mediate between William Longchamp, the justiciar whom Richard had left in charge of the kingdom, and Prince John, Richard's younger brother. Coutances succeeded in securing a peace between Longchamp and John, but further actions by Longchamp led to the justiciar's expulsion from England. Coutances died in November 1207 and was buried in his cathedral.

1 pt for day of death (day of birth not known), 2 for 2 years FA, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - a nice history article, and quite a bishop. Besieged Windsor, eh? Good stuff. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:14, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, but why not use File:Vue generale de la cathedrale de Rouen.jpg as a picture in the blurb? &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:02, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Added, although I note a comment in the article's FAC that the use of the cathedral in the infobox was confusing when the article was about a person, so that view might be relevant here. Having said that, the image-use discussion at WT:TFA earlier in the year showed me that my personal views about when an image is a good addition to the blurb are probably too restrictive compared to others in the community, so I'm trying to break out of that habit! BencherliteTalk 11:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, sounds good, thank you! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:39, 22 October 2013 (UTC)