Robert Winchelsey
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Robert Winchelsey was an English Catholic theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury. He studied at the universities of Paris and Oxford, and later taught at both. Influenced by Thomas Aquinas, he was a
Medieval lecturer from a painting by Laurentius de Voltolina, second half of the 14th century. Robert would have taught much like this.
Ordinances of 1311
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The Ordinances of 1311 were a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the English monarch. The twenty-one signato
Robert Winchelsey
…to England in 1309. Winchelsey aided the barons in their prosecution of Edward II by sentencing their enemies to excommunication. He was appointed an Ordainer in 1310, and died at Otford on 11 May 1313. Winchelsey was a preacher of some note, and when preaching at St. Paul's he attracted large crowds to his…
Edward I blessing his son – the future Edward II – prince of Wales.
Scene from the Battle of Bannockburn in the Holkham Bible, 1327–35