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THOMAS DE CANTILUPE (c. 1218-1282)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 218 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS DE CANTILUPE (c. 1218-1282)  ,
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English saint and prelate, was a son of William de Cantilupe, the 2nd baron (d . 1251), one of King John's ministers, and a
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nephew of Walter de Cantilupe, bishop of Worcester . He was educated at Paris and Orleans, afterwards becoming a teacher of
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canon law at Oxford and chancellor of the university in 1262 . During the Barons' War Thomas favoured Simon de Montfort and the baronial party . He represented the barons before St Louis of France ' E.g. the
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late form of the relative pronoun used throughout except in title;
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foreign words, Persian and Greek; Aramaic words and usages (details in the
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Comm. or in E . B . 693) . at
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Amiens in 1264; he was made chancellor of England in
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February 1265, but was deprived of this office after Montfort's
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death at
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Evesham, and lived out of England for some time . Returning to England, he was again chancellor of Oxford University, lectured on
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theology, and held several ecclesiastical appointments . In 1274 he attended the second council of Lyons, and in 1275 he was appointed bishop of
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Hereford . Cantilupe was now a trusted adviser of
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Edward I.; he attended the royal
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councils, and even when differing from the king did not forfeit his favour . The archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Kilwardby, was also his friend; but after Kilwardby's death in 1279 a series of disputes arose between the bishop and the new archbishop, John Peckham, and this was probably the cause which drove Cantilupe to visit Italy .

He died at

Orvieto, on the 25th of August 1282, and he was canonized in 1330 . Cantilupe appears to have been an exemplary bishop both in spiritual and secular affairs . His charities were large and his private
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life blameless; he was constantly visiting his diocese, correcting offenders and discharging other episcopal duties; and he compelled neighbouring landholders to restore estates which rightly belonged to the see of Hereford . In 1905 the Cantilupe Society was founded to publish the episcopal registers of Hereford, of which Cantilupe's is the first in existence . See the Ada Sanctorum,
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Boll., 1st
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October; and the
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Register of Thomas de Cantilupe, with introduction by W . W . Capes (1906) .

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