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HUGH DE BALSHAM (d. 1286)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH DE See also:BALSHAM (d. 1286)  , See also:English churchman, appears first as sub-See also:prior of the monastery of See also:Ely . On the See also:death of See also:William of See also:Kilkenny in 1256 the monks elected him See also:bishop of Ely, to the annoyance of See also:Henry III. who had handed over the temporalities of the see to See also:John de Waleran . The See also:election was confirmed by the See also:pope in 1257 and See also:Hugh set to See also:work to repair the harm done to the See also:diocese by the intruder . In 1280 the bishop obtained a See also:charter allowing him to replace the See also:secular brethren residing in his See also:hospital of St John at See also:Cambridge by " studious scholars "; a second charter four years later entirely differentiated these scholars from the brethren of the hospital, and for them Hugh de See also:Balsham founded and endowed the See also:college of Peterhouse .

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