sentences:  He was chaplain to Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor sometime before his appointment as bishop.He was appointed to the see of Hereford about Christmas 1060.His appointment was because Aldred, the Bishop of Worcester, who had been supervising the see of Hereford after the death of Leofgar in 1056, was appointed Archbishop of York and this opened the way for an appointment to Hereford.