The archbishop had planned to install canons regular into the church, and on William's deathbed dispatched a party of canons from Merton Priory to take over St Martin's.
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Very little is known of William's early life or his family, except that he was born at Corbeil in the outskirts of Paris and that he had two brothers.
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Throughout his archbishopric, William was embroiled in a dispute with Thurstan, the Archbishop of York, over the primacy of Canterbury.
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