Ralph of Shrewsbury | |
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Bishop of Bath and Wells | |
Elected | 2 June 1329 |
Term ended | 14 August 1363 |
Predecessor | John Droxford |
Successor | John Barnet |
Orders | |
Consecration | 3 September 1329 |
Personal details | |
Died | 14 August 1363 |
Denomination | Catholic |
Ralph of Shrewsbury[lower-alpha 1] (died 1363) was an English medieval bishop and university chancellor.[4]
Life
From 1328 to 1329, Ralph was Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[3]
On 2 June 1329 Ralph was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells and consecrated on 3 September 1329. He died on 14 August 1363.[5]
Ralph founded Vicars Close.[2]
Notes
Citations
- ↑ "Ralph of Shrewsbury (Died 1363)". Britannia.com. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- 1 2 "Vicars Close, at Wells" (PDF). monasticmatrix.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- 1 2 Wood, Anthony (1790). "Fasti Oxonienses". The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford. p. 21.
- ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 521–522. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ↑ Fryde, et al., Handbook of British Chronology, p. 228.
References
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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