| Birth: | c. 1205 | | Death: | Oct. 27, 1277 | 
Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College, Oxford. Ordained as a sub-deacon in 1235, he became a clerk in the royal chancery. In 1261 he was appointed Chancellor and continued in that office until 1263. He was made a Bishop of Rochester in 1274 and died as a result of an accident while fording the River Medway. (bio by: julia&keld)
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Rochester Cathedral
Rochester
Kent, England |
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Record added: Jun 15, 2000
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