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Ealdred was in great favour with King Edward the Confessor and, in 1049, he went, with Herman, Bishop of Sherborne, to Rome, where they induced the Pope to absolve their master from the vow, he had made, of going on pilgrimage to that city.
In 1054, Ealdred was sent on an embassy to the Emperor Henry III, at Cologne, where he remained a whole year and prevailed on the Emperor to allow his nephew, Edward Aetheling the son of King Edmund Ironside, to return to England.
Ealdred was a fearless champion of the rights of the church.