Eustace of Fauconberg was a medieval English
Bishop of London
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from 1221 to 1228 and was also
Lord High Treasurer.
Biography
Eustace was the son of Walter de Fauconberg of
Rise-in-Holderness in the
East Riding of the English county of
Yorkshire.
Eustace was selected as treasurer in 1217, probably on 4 November, and held the office until his death.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 103] He held the
prebend of
Holbourn in the
diocese of London
The Diocese of London forms part of the Church of England's Province of Canterbury in England.
It lies directly north of the Thames. For centuries the diocese covered a vast tract and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the nort ...
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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops
' before being elected to the see of London on 26 February 1221 and consecrated on 25 April 1221.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258]
Eustace died between 24 and 31 October 1228.
[ There was a tomb memorial to him in the quire at Old St Paul's Cathedral.]["Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p93: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909]
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Fauconberg
Bishops of London
Lord High Treasurers of England
People from Holderness
1228 deaths
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Year of birth unknown
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