Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
Summary
As bishop of Lincoln, according to Sir Richard Southern, Robert Grosseteste ‘was – far more effectively than the king could ever be – the ruler of about one fifth of the whole population of England…’. It is the prerogative of great historians to pose challenges to their lesser successors, and what follows here is in effect a gloss on Southern's observation. It investigates the workings of church government within a limited area – the diocese of Carlisle, one far smaller than Lincoln – over the period of a single episcopate. And it is concerned less with diocesan government per se than with its secular implications, with what that government entailed for the laity upon whom it impinged.
Between 1258 and 1278 the diocese of Carlisle was ruled by Robert de Chaury. Almost certainly he took his name from Chawreth in Essex – he is first recorded in that county in 1239. By the end of 1244 he was employed in the wardrobe of Queen Eleanor of Provence, and in 1249 he became its comptroller. Of illegitimate birth, he needed a papal dispensation to take holy orders, and received one some time after 1243. By 1250 he had at least two benefices in Wiltshire and Somerset, and although he acquired at least two more elsewhere, in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, it was mainly in the two former counties that his ecclesiastical career prospered. Meanwhile his secular one advanced as well.
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- Thirteenth Century England XProceedings of the Durham Conference, 2003, pp. 147 - 154Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005