died Feb. 22, 1072
Archbishop of Canterbury (105270).
He mediated the peace between Edward the Confessor and Earl Godwine (1052) and was made archbishop of Canterbury when the Norman archbishop fled. He was not accepted until 1058, and then only by the antipope Benedict X, after whose deposition Stigand was excommunicated by Pope Nicholas II . Stigand's continuance in office was one of the reasons for papal support of the Norman Conquest (see William I ) in 1066.