Editing William de St-Calais (section)

==Return to favour==
After the court adjourned, St-Calais was held as a prisoner at [[Wilton Abbey]] until his followers in Durham relinquished the castle.<ref name=Crouch135/> Once the castle was back under the king's control, St-Calais was released, and exiled; he left for Normandy,<ref name=Crouch135/> and no more was heard of his appeal to Rome.<ref name=Mason64/><ref name=Lyon>Lyon ''Constitutional and Legal History'' p. 209</ref> Pope [[Pope Urban II|Urban II]] did write to the king in 1089 requesting that St-Calais be restored to his see, but nothing came of it.<ref name=Cantor51>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 51</ref> In Normandy, St-Calais quickly became one of Duke Robert's principal advisors and his chief administrator.<ref name=Aird294>Aird "Absent Friend" ''Anglo-Norman Durham'' p. 294</ref> On 14 November 1091 he regained the favour of William Rufus, and was restored to his see.<ref name=BHODurham/><ref name=Poole108>Poole ''Domesday Book to Magna Carta'' p. 108 footnote 1</ref> Duke Robert had persuaded the king to allow Bishop William's return,<ref name=Crouch135/> perhaps in recognition of a service St-Calais performed for the king by brokering the end of a siege in Normandy that the king's forces were about to lose. The end of the siege prevented the loss of the castle.<ref name=Mason95>Mason ''William II'' p. 95</ref>

St-Calais returned to Durham on 11 September 1091,<ref name=Rufus294>Barlow ''William Rufus'' p. 294</ref> with a large sum of money and gifts for his church.<ref name=Aird295>Aird "Absent Friend" ''Anglo-Norman Durham'' p. 295</ref> Thereafter he remained in the king's favour. In fact, in 1093 his lands were restored without the need to perform feudal services.<ref name=Poole100/> For the rest of his life, St-Calais remained a frequent advisor to the king.<ref name=Cantor62>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 62</ref><ref name=Cantor71>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 71</ref> It was St-Calais, along with [[Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert, Count of Meulan]] who negotiated with Anselm, the abbot of Bec, in 1093 over the conditions under which Anselm would allow himself to be elected Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref name=Rufus306>Barlow ''William Rufus'' p. 306</ref>

St-Calais managed the king's case against Anselm at [[Rockingham, Northamptonshire|Rockingham]] in 1095, when Anselm wished to go to receive his [[pallium]] from Pope Urban II.<ref name=Lords52>Powell and Wallis ''House of Lords'' p. 52</ref> At that time St-Calais opposed Anselm's attempt to appeal to Rome over the issue, and steadfastly maintained the king's position against Anselm,<ref name=Poole100/> even advocating that the archbishop be deprived of his lands and sent into exile.<ref name=Poole174>Poole ''Domesday Book to Magna Carta'' p. 174</ref><ref name=Anselm182>Vaughn ''Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan'' pp. 182–185</ref> Later, when the king was negotiating with [[Walter of Albano]], the papal legate sent by Urban to convey the pallium to Anselm and to secure the king's recognition of Urban as pope,{{efn|There was a rival pope at the time, [[Antipope Clement III]] and the king had not recognized either yet.<ref name=Cantor51/>}} St-Calais was the king's chief negotiator.<ref name=Cantor92>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 92</ref> The clerical reformers, [[Eadmer]] among them, who supported Anselm in these quarrels, later tried to claim that St-Calais had supported the king out of a desire to succeed Anselm as archbishop if Anselm was deposed, but it is unlikely that St-Calais seriously believed that Anselm would be deposed.<ref name=Cantor97>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 97</ref><ref name=Anselm188>Vaughn ''Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan'' p. 188</ref><ref name=Church67>Barlow ''English Church'' p. 67</ref> St-Calais secured grants from the king in return for his services.<ref name=Cantor97/> His efforts on behalf of the king earned him hostile accounts in Eadmer's later writings.<ref name=Aird285>Aird "Absent Friend" ''Anglo-Norman Durham'' p. 285</ref>