Spearhafoc Cleric
Spearhafoc, a name meaning "sparrowhawk" in Old English (Speraver in Latin), was an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon artist and Benedictine monk, whose artistic talent was apparently the cause of his rapid elevation to Abbot of Abingdon in 1047–48 and Bishop-Elect of London in 1051. After his consecration as Bishop was thwarted, he vanished with the gold and jewels he had been given to make into a crown for King Edward the Confessor, and was never seen again. He was also famous for a miracle, on which his end perhaps casts a different light.
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- http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=zltHwzNyZYcC&dq=%22Mannig%22+Abbot+of+Evesham&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=zI7GDKYUju&sig=qjT03uSOxqcx5viUorfQJLheli8&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PRA1-PA159,M1
- http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ABFDooFmNBkC&pg=PR104&dq=Spearhafoc&as_brr=3#PPR105,M1
- http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_5TcZNIlSh8C&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Mannig+Abbot&source=web&ots=c2v-Xwdv0a&sig=UwA6iOqzINE8ClXF7w0YcP8FQ6s&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA65,M1
- http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/catholic_historical_review/v087/87.4smith.html