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Robert de Eglesfield

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19: 126:, purchasing the site from his own funds and adding to that gift his manor of Renwick. Having taken on the headship, he is named as Provost in deeds dated January and September 1347, he is known to have lived there during half of 1348 but he seems to have died elsewhere on 31 May 1349. His remains were interred in the chapel as he requested, but interment may not have taken place until some years after his death. The 94:
which met at Northampton. By 1331 he is recorded as a king's clerk and thereafter remained in royal service but only on minor administrative duties. There is no record of a marriage or children.
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Robert was the third son of John of Eglesfield and Beatrix. John was himself third son of Thomas of Eglesfield and Hawisa. Their family held lands in and near
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There is no evidence that he took a degree or studied anywhere. To provide income he had been admitted to the rectory of
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in July 1332 though he was not ordained a priest until February 1333 and did not permanently reside in his parish.
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from which he came, he asked for preference to be given to them, expecting few candidates, and to his own kin.
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In the next few years, he acquired lands in Middlesex, which in February 1328 he exchanged for the manor of
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Not forgetting the 'devastated state, poverty and lack of letters' of the men of
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chaplains in 1340 and next year founded what became known as
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assisted in the establishment of a modest endowment.
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The Queen's College
The Queen's College, Oxford
Philippa of Hainault
Eaglesfield
Cockermouth
Cumberland
Sir Anthony Lucy
Renwick
Cumberland
Cumberland
parliament
Brough
Westmorland
Queen Philippa's
The Queen's College, Oxford
Queen
King
Cumberland
Westmorland
Stephen, Leslie
"Eglesfield, Robert of" 
Dictionary of National Biography
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1295 births
1349 deaths
Provosts of the Queen's College, Oxford
Founders of colleges of the University of Oxford

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