Education
Turbeville was educated in the Benedictine cathedral-priory of Norwich.
Turbeville was educated in the Benedictine cathedral-priory of Norwich.
Here he also made religious profession, first as a teacher and later as prior. He first held the office of precentor of the diocese of Norwich from about 1136, and was subsequently Prior of Norwich. When Turbeville became bishop in 1146 or early 1147 he propagated the cult of the "boy-martyr".
On four different occasions he had the boy"s remains transferred to more honourable places, and in 1168 erected a chapel in his honor in Mousehold Wood, where the boy"s body was said to have been foundation
He persuaded Thomas of Monmouth, a monk of Norwich priory, to write "The and Miracles of Saint William of Norwich" about 1173, the only extant authority for the legend of William, which is now commonly discredited. Turbeville attended the Council of Rheims in 1148.
Turbeville died on 16 January 1174 or 17 January 1174.