His Good
Conduct Procured Him The Friendship Of Bartholomew Bishop Of Exeter,
Who Promoted Him To The Archdeaconry Of That See; Resigning This
Preferment, He Assumed The Cowl, And In A Few Years Became Abbot Of
The Cistercian Monastery At Ford.
In the year 1180, he was advanced
to the bishopric of Worcester, and in 1184, translated to the
archiepiscopal see of Canterbury.
In the year 1188, he made his
progress through Wales, preaching with fervour the service of the
Cross; to which holy cause he fell a sacrifice in the year 1190,
having religiously, honourably, and charitably ended his days in the
Holy Land.
{194} Giraldus here alludes to the dignity of archdeacon, which
Baldwin had obtained in the church of Exeter.
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