Benedict of Sausetun (or Benedict of Sawston) was a medieval
Bishop of Rochester.
Life
Benedict was from
Sawston
Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam about south of Cambridge. It has a population of 7,260.
History Prehistory
Although the current village of Sawston has only existed as anything more than a ha ...
in
Cambridgeshire
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.
[British History Online Bishops of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was a
canon
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of the
diocese of London from 1196 and held the
prebend of Neseden.
[British History Online Prebendaries of Nesden]
accessed on 30 October 2007 From 1204 he was
precentor
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of
St Paul's, London.
[British History Online Precentors of London]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was elected to the
see of Rochester
The Diocese of Rochester is a Church of England diocese in the English county of Kent and the Province of Canterbury. The cathedral church of the diocese is Rochester Cathedral in the former city of Rochester. The bishop's Latin episcopal signa ...
on 13 December 1214
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267] and was consecrated on either 25 January 1215 or 22 February 1215.
[ At some point between 1217 and 1221 he served as a baron of the exchequer.][Vincent "Origins of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer" ''English Historical Review'' p. 108] He died on 18 December 1226 and was buried on 21 December 1226.[
]
Citations
References
British History Online Bishops of Rochester
accessed on 30 October 2007
British History Online Prebendaries of Nesden
accessed on 30 October 2007
British History Online Precentors of London
accessed on 30 October 2007
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Bishops of Rochester
People from Sawston
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1226 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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