Simon Mepeham
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Simon Mepeham was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1328 to 1333.
Tomb of Mepeham in Canterbury Cathedral
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
Simon Mepeham
…at Merton College where he devoted himself to the study of theology. He was ordained priest on 21 September 1297 in Canterbury Cathedral by Archbishop Robert Winchelsey, who gave Simon the rectory of Tunstall in Kent. Mepeham became a prebendary of Llandaff in 1295 and soon afterwards a canon of Chichester but took no…
Medieval lecturer from a painting by Laurentius de Voltolina, second half of the 14th century. Robert would have taught much like this.