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Report No. a485 |
Richardus de Wetheringsett |
fl. c.1215–1231 |
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| Alternative Names |
Richard Wetheringsett; Richard de Leycestria; Richard of Leicester; Richard Grant |
Biography/Description |
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Is the author of a very popular English pastoral Summa, Qui bene presunt, written c.1215–1220. Chancellor of Cambridge and, according to Goering, then Lincoln Cathedral (known then as Richard Grant). He ended with career with a brief tenure as the archibishop of Canterbury. |
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Entry by: KP rev AL 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Summa Qui bene presunt. |
Literature |
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L. Boyle, ‘Three English Pastoral summae and a “Magister Galienus”’, SG, 11 (1967) 133–44. |
