The History of the Church of York, also known as Historia ecclesiae Eboracensis, is a 12th-century historical Latin text composed by Hugh the Chantor (died 1139).[1] It describes the history of the archdiocese of York between 1066 and 1127, and is written almost in the form of a series of biographies of the archbishops during that period, particularly detailed during the episcopate of Thurstan, to whom Hugh was a close companion.[1] A large concern of the text is the claims of the archbishopric of York to independence of and equality with the archbishopric of Canterbury.[2]