sentences:  In 1215 he was also King John's candidate for the see of St David's in Wales, but was not elected.After Foliot's failed candidacy as bishop, in February 1216 John appointed him to the benefice of Colwall in Herefordshire, the king having the ability to make the appointment because Giles de Braose, the Bishop of Hereford, who would normally have made the appointment, had recently died.Also from this time comes Foliot's patronage of Robert Grosseteste, the theologian and future Bishop of Lincoln.