William Bona Anima [SEP] position held
William Bona Anima
William Bona Anima or Bonne-Âme (died 1110) was a medieval archbishop of Rouen. He served from 1079 to 1110.
William was the son of Radbod, the bishop of Sées and was a canon at Rouen as well as an archdeacon in that diocese. He then entered a monastery and became abbot of the monastery of Saint-Etienne in Caen from 1070 to 1079. He then was named archbishop of Rouen, where he served from 1079 to 1110.
when Norman invaders raided and plundered the region, and the Duchy of Normandy was created. Standing between the choir and the "rue Saint Romain", the building was extended to the east, and came close to the moats of the former ramparts dating from the fourth century AD. William Bona Anima rebuilt the archiepiscopal palace. Of this building only subsists a basement room and the foundations of the walls between the "portail des Libraires" (Gate of the Librarians) and the tower at the angle of the "rue Saint