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Theobald or Tebaldus d.1161
English ecclesiastic

Born near Bec, Normandy, France, he became a monk at Bec, then abbot (1137) and in 1138 became Archbishop of Canterbury. He crowned King Stephen in Canterbury, and after the latter's death refused to regard Stephen's son as his successor and eventually crowned Henry II (1154). He advanced his archdeacon, Thomas ŕ Becket, to the chancellorship in 1155, introduced the study of civil law into England and resisted all attempts by the monasteries to throw off episcopal jurisdiction.