bishopstool

In Teutonic England the bishop was commonly bishop, not of a city but of a tribe or district; his style was that of a tribe; his home, his head church, his bishopstool, might be anywhere within the territory of that tribe.

William the Conqueror Freeman, E A 1913

The kings generally gave their bishops a seat near their own chief town, as Cuthbert had his see at Lindisfarne, close to the royal Northumbrian capital of Bamborough; so that the proximity of Selsea to Chichester made it the most natural place for a bishopstool; and, again, it was usual to make over spots in the fens or marshes to the monks, who, by draining and cultivating them, performed

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

In accordance with their ordinary policy of removing cathedrals from villages to chief towns, and so concentrating the civil and ecclesiastical government, the Normans brought the bishopstool from Selsea to

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

Bishop of Saint-Lo, but it must not therefore be thought that he had his bishopstool in the town so called, or that the great church of Saint-Lo was ever the spiritual head of the peninsular land of Coutances.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

The Lexovian bishopstool has passed away; but the church that held it is still there.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

In Teutonic England the bishop was commonly bishop, not of a city but of a tribe or district; his style was that of a tribe; his home, his head church, his bishopstool, might be anywhere within the territory of that tribe.

William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

His home, his head church, his bishopstool in the head church, were all in the city.

William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857