The Unlearned Bishop

"He was chaste, but unlearned, for he understood not Latin and could scarce pronounce it. When therefore, at his consecration, he should have made his formal profession, he could not read it, though he had been instructed therein for many days beforehand; and having at last arrived, with many promptings from others, at the word 'Metropolitan,' which after many gasps he yet could not pronounce, at length he said in the French tongue 'let that be taken as read!' All the bystanders were amazed, mourning that such a man should be consecrated bishop. Another time, when he was conferring Holy Orders, and could not pronounce that phrase 'in aenigmate' [I Cor. xiii, 12], he said in French to those that stood by, 'By St. Louis, the man was a clown that wrote this word!'"

Robert de Graystanes, Chronicle (1336).