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Spearhafoc a name meaning sparrowhawk in Old English (Speraver in Latin) was an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon artist and Benedictine monk whose artistic talent was apparently the cause of his rapid elevation to Abbot of Abingdon in 1047–48 and Bishop-Elect of London in 1051. After his consecration as Bishop was thwarted he vanished with the gold and jewels he had been given to make into a crown for King Edward the Confessor and was never seen again.