Career
Giffard appears to have profited from his brother's position, and held the following positions:
- Canon of Wells
- Rector of Mells.
- Rector of the greater moiety of Attleborough in Norfolk
- Archdeacon of Barnstaple between 1265 and 1267, and (after Walter later became archbishop of York)
- Archdeacon of York
- Chancellor of the exchequer
- Chancellor of England and
- Rector of Adlingfleet in 1267
Complaints were later made to the Pope at Rome about the way in which the Archbishop had given this and many other benefices to his brother – as Godfrey was it was claimed, "...only in minor orders and deficient in learning".
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