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Osbert de Bayeux (floruit 1121 to 1184) was a medieval English cleric and archdeacon in the Diocese of York. A relative of Thurstan the Archbishop of York Osbert probably owed his ecclesiastical positions to this relative. After Thurstan’s death Osbert was opposed to one of the candidates for the archbishopric William fitzHerbert and worked to secure fitzHerbert’s deposition and replacement by Henry Murdac.