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William Of Nottingham II
William of Nottingham, OFM ( la, Guilelmus de Nottingham or '; 1330 1336) was an English Franciscan friar who served as the seventeenth Minister Provincial of England (–1330). __NOTOC__ Life From 1312 to 1314, William served as the 39th reader ( la, lector) at the Franciscan college at Oxford. He later succeeded Richard of Conington, becoming the 17th Minister Provincial of England. (–1330). William attended the Franciscan General Chapter in 1322 and had royal permission to travel abroad in 1324 and 1325. In 1330, he was ordered by Pope John XXII to extradict the friars Peter de Saxlingham, John de Hequinton, Henry de Costeseye, and Thomas de Helmedon. They were all arrested at Cambridge on charges of heresy. William died in Leicester sometime between 1330 and 1336 and was buried in the same Greyfriars cemetery that later held Richard III. For a time, it was thought that his body may have been the one discovered in a double stone-and-lead coffin near Richard I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Of Nottingham I
William of Nottingham, OFM ( la, Guilelmus de Nottingham, ', or '; 1254), was an English Franciscan friar who served as the fourth Minister Provincial of England (1240–1254). Life The Franciscan Order supposedly reached Nottingham in 1230, settling in the Broad Marsh. The son of well-off parents, William entered the order early in life and may have attended Robert Grosseteste's lectures at Oxford. His brother Augustine also joined the Franciscans. He served under Pope Innocent IV and followed the pope's nephew Opizzo east when he was appointed Latin Patriarch of Antioch. While there, Augustine served as bishop of Laodicea.. Without holding lesser offices, William was appointed vicar of Haymo of Faversham, the third Minister Provincial of England in 1239,. and was elected to succeed him upon Haymo's promotion to Minister General of the Order in 1240. As Minister Provincial, he appears in the chronicle of his friend Thomas of Eccleston as a helpful and wise cleric with good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
