Herbert Poore

[1][4] He was initially one of a trio in the office but, in 1180, Archbishop Richard reversed himself and left Herbert the sole archdeacon for the area.

In July the next year, he was one of the men charged by Henry II to instruct the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, to elect his favorite Bishop Baldwin of Worcester as Richard's successor.

Herbert was only in deacon's orders at the time; he was ordained as a priest on 4 June,[2] the day before Hubert consecrated him in St Katherine's Chapel at Westminster.

[1] By the king's orders, all of Herbert's English lands were then seized, until he left to visit Richard personally in Normandy.

It was Herbert's idea to move the see from Old Sarum to the Salisbury Plain and he received permission from Richard to that effect, but the plan had to be abandoned after King John came to the throne.

[8] It was left to Herbert's brother and successor, Richard, to carry it out decades later, founding modern Salisbury in the process.

On 19 September 1200, he served as a papal delegate at the reconciliation of Archbishop Geoffrey and the chapter of York at Westminster and, on 22 November, he was present when the king of Scotland paid homage to John at Lincoln.