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WALTER DE CANTILUPE (d. 1265)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 218 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALTER DE See also:CANTILUPE (d. 1265)  , See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, came of a See also:family which had risen by devoted service to the See also:crown . His See also:father and his See also:elder See also:brother are named by See also:Roger of See also:Wendover among the " evil counsellors " of See also:John, apparently for no better See also:reason than that they were consistently loyal to an unpopular See also:master . See also:Walter at first followed in his father's footsteps, entering the service of the See also:Exchequer and acting as an itinerant See also:justice in the See also:early years of See also:Henry III . But he also took See also:minor orders, and, in 1236, although not yet a See also:deacon, received the see of Worcester . As bishop, he identified himself with the party of ecclesiastical reform, which was then led by See also:Edmund See also:Rich and See also:Robert See also:Grosseteste . Like his leaders he was sorely divided between his theoretical belief in the papacy as a divine institution and his instinctive condemnation of the policy which See also:Gregory IX. and See also:Innocent IV. pursued in their dealings with the See also:English See also:church . At first a See also:court favourite, the bishop came at length to the belief that the evils of the See also:time arose from the unprincipled See also:alliance of crown and papacy . He raised his See also:voice against papal demands for See also:money, and after the See also:death of Grosseteste (1253) was the See also:chief spokesman of the nationalist See also:clergy . At the See also:parliament of See also:Oxford (1258) he was elected by the popular party as one of their representatives on the See also:committee of twenty-four which undertook to reform the See also:administration; from that time till the outbreak of See also:civil See also:war he was a See also:man of See also:mark in the See also:councils of the baronial party . During the war he sided with See also:Montfort and, through his See also:nephew, See also:Thomas, who was then See also:chancellor of Oxford, brought over the university to the popular See also:side . He was See also:present at See also:Lewes and blessed the Montfortians before they joined See also:battle with the See also:army of the See also:king; he entertained See also:Simon de Montfort on the See also:night before the final rout of See also:Evesham . During Simon's dictatorship, the bishop appeared only as a mediating See also:influence; in the triumvirate of " See also:Electors " who controlled the administration, the clergy were represented by the bishop of See also:Chichester .

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Cantilupe died in the See also:year after Evesham (1266) . He was respected by all parties, and, though far inferior in versatility and force of will to Grosseteste, fully merits the admiration which his moral See also:character inspired . He is one of the few constitutionalists of his See also:day whom it is impossible to accuse of interested motives . See the Chronica Maiora of See also:Matthew See also:Paris (" Rolls " See also:series, ed . Luard) ; the Chronicon de Bellis (ed . Halliwell, See also:Camden Society) ; and the Annales Monastici (" Rolls " series, ed . Luard) ; also T . F . Tout in the See also:Political See also:History of See also:England, vol. iii . (1905) .

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