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POORE (or POOR), RICHARD (d. 1237)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POORE (or POOR), See also:RICHARD (d. 1237)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was a son of See also:Richard of See also:Ilchester, bishop of See also:Winchester . About 1199 he was chosen See also:dean of Sarum and, after being an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the bishoprics of Winchester and of See also:Durham, he became bishop of See also:Chichester in 1214 . In 1217 he was translated to See also:Salisbury, where he succeeded his See also:elder See also:brother, See also:Herbert See also:Poore, and in 1228 to Durham . He died at Tarrant Monkton, See also:Dorset, said by some to be his birthplace, on the 15th of See also:April 1237 . Poore took some See also:part in public affairs, under See also:Henry III., but the See also:great See also:work of his See also:life was done at Salisbury . Having in 1219 removed his see from Old to New Sarum, or Salisbury, he began the See also:building of the magnificent See also:cathedral there; he laid the See also:foundation See also:stone in April 1220, and during his episcopate he found See also:money and forwarded the work in other ways . For the See also:city the bishop secured a See also:charter from Henry III. and he was responsible for the See also:plan on which it was built, a plan which to some extent it still retains . He had something to do with See also:drawing up some statutes for his cathedral; he is said to be responsible for the final See also:form of the " use of Sarum," and he was probably the author of the Ancren Riwle, a valuable " picture of contemporary life, See also:manners and feeling " written in See also:Middle English . His supposed identity with the jurist, Ricardus Anglicus, is more doubtful .

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