Exmes ( French pronunciation: [ɛm] ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France . On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Gouffern en Auge . It was the seat of the county of Hiémois (French: Comté d'Hiémois ), granted before his death in 1027 by Richard II, Duke of Normandy , to his younger son, Robert, who eventually succeeded as Duke of Normandy . In 1136, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke , led an expedition against Exmes and burned parts of the town, including the church of Notre Dame.
4-474: Herbert de Losinga , Bishop of Norwich (c. 1095–1119), was born in Exmes as well was François Le Prévost d'Exmes (1729–1793), an 18th-century playwright. This Orne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Herbert de Losinga Herbert de Losinga (died 22 July 1119) was the first Bishop of Norwich . He founded Norwich Cathedral in 1096 when he
8-399: The appointment having paid the king a sum of £1,900, as part of a deal in which Herbert's father was made Abbot of New Minster, Winchester . In 1094 he went to Rome to ask for forgiveness from Pope Urban for this act of simony . On his return he transferred the see from Thetford to Norwich, in accordance with the decree of Lanfranc 's synod of 1075 , that bishops should have their sees in
12-743: The principal town of the diocese. In addition to Norwich Cathedral, Losinga was responsible for founding St Margaret's Church in King's Lynn ; the Church of St Nicholas in Great Yarmouth ; and Norwich School . Losinga visited Rome for a second time in 1116, representing the king in a dispute between the monarch and Anselm , the Archbishop of Canterbury . It may have been on the return journey that he fell severely ill at Placentia (modern Piacenza); other sources suggest he suffered this illness on
16-569: Was Bishop of Thetford . Losinga was born in Exmes , near Argentan , Normandy , the son of Robert de Losinga (died June 1098) Losinga was educated in Normandy, and took his vows at Fécamp Abbey in Normandy, of which he eventually became prior. While serving in this office he was invited to England by the king, William Rufus , who appointed him abbot of Ramsey Abbey . Losinga was consecrated Bishop of Thetford in 1090 or 1091. He received
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