previous_post death_date successor religion consecration title type term province article_title diocese name church
bishop of ramsbury bishop of sherborne 20 february 1078 osmund roman catholic circa 1045 bishop of salisbury bishop 1075 -- 1078 canterbury herman -lrb- bishop -rrb-
 salisbury herman roman catholic church
herman -lrb- bishop -rrb-

herman or hereman -lrb- or '' '' ; 1078 -rrb- was a medieval cleric who served as the bishop of ramsbury and sherborne before and after the norman conquest of england .
in 1075 , he oversaw their unification and translation to salisbury -lrb- then at old sarum -rrb- .
he died before the completion of the new cathedral .
herman was a native of flanders -lrb- lotharingia -rrb- .
as chaplain of edward the confessor , he was named bishop of ramsbury shortly after 22 april 1045 .
he visited rome in 1050 , where he attended a papal council with his fellow english bishop ealdred .
he was named abbot of malmesbury abbey by king edward in 1055 and planned to move his seat there as well , apparently in the hope of increasing the income from his poor see .
the king revoked this position after three days , however , when the monks and earl godwin objected .
herman then abandoned ramsbury to the administration of ealdred and traveled to the continent to become a monk at the abbey of at saint-omer .
he returned three years later when the bishopric of sherborne fell vacant ; he was elected , faced no opposition from king harold , and resumed administration of ramsbury .
he later moved the see to the royal fortress at salisbury .
approval for this translation and the unification of his sees was given at the council held at london between 1074 and 1075 .
herman was a patron of goscelin of saint-bertin , a noted medieval historian and musician .
the bishop died on 20 february 1078 .
