[4] In 1159, Bartholomew took part in a synod held at London to decide between the rival claims of Popes Alexander III and Victor IV.

[6] After the death of Robert of Chichester, the see of Exeter was vacant for a year before a local Gloucestershire family urged King Henry II of England to put forward one of their members as a candidate for the see.

[10] At the start of the dispute, Bartholomew was sent with a royal deputation to Sens to ask the pope to send papal legates to England to settle the quarrel.

[11] In September 1170, Pope Alexander III suspended Bartholomew from office for attending the coronation, along with a number of other bishops.

[1] Early in his episcopate, Bartholomew attended Alexander III's council at Tours in 1163, along with a number of other English bishops.

[16] Alexander described Bartholomew, in company with Richard of Dover, another leading papal judge, as the "twin lights illuminating the English Church".

[6] The historian Austin Lane Poole said of him that he "kept out as much as possible out of secular politics, and used [his] learning and practical abilities whole-heartedly for the welfare of the church.

[1] A sermon on the death of Becket by Bartholomew was seen by John Bale in the 16th century at Oxford, but it has not survived to the present.