Deans of Salisbury - Richard Poore, Thomas Pierce, Eustace, Cuthbert Tunstall, Adam Moleyns, John Piers, Thomas Ruthall, Dean of Salisbury (Paperback)

Chapters: Richard Poore, Thomas Pierce, Eustace, Cuthbert Tunstall, Adam Moleyns, John Piers, Thomas Ruthall, Dean of Salisbury, Alan Becher Webb, William Bradbridge, John of Oxford, Robert of Chichester, June Osborne, Henry Brandeston, Andrew Ewbank Burn, Edward Lowry Henderson, John Hugh Granville Randolph, Richard Pace, William Page Roberts, Derek Watson, Sydney Hall Evans, Robert Wickhampton, Walter Scammel, John Bridges, Henry Charles Robins, John Longland, Robert Braybrooke, Kenneth William Haworth, Edmund Freke, William Fenton Morley, Robert Hamilton Moberly, Richard Baylie, Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson, Simon Sydenham, James Goldwell, John Clarke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Poore (or Richard Poor) (died 15 April 1237) was a medieval English clergyman best known for his role in the construction of Salisbury Cathedral. He was probably the son of Richard of Ilchester, also known as Richard Toclive, who served as Bishop of Winchester. He was also the brother of Herbert Poore, Bishop of Salisbury from 1194 to 1217. Richard studied under Stephen Langton at Paris. Richard Poore became Dean of Salisbury in 1197, and unsuccessfully was nominated to the see of Winchester in 1205 and the see of Durham in 1213. His election to Durham was disallowed by Pope Innocent III before it was made public, probably because the pope knew that King John wished for the translation of his advisor John de Gray from the see of Norwich to Durham. During the Interdict on England during King John's reign, Richard returned to Paris to teach until the interdict was lifted. It was probably during these years before he held an epicopal office that he completed Osmund's Institutio, as well as his own works the Ordinale and the Consuetudinarium. The Institutio deta...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=545454