Henry de Stanton (also Staunton) was an

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medieval Canon law jurist, judge, churchman, and university chancellor. Henry de Stanton was a

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. Between 1280 and 1282, he was Chancellor of the

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. During his chancellorship, the university appointed a group of masters to investigate how to put the Will of William of Durham (died 1249) into effect to establish

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at Oxford. Henry de Stanton was

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of St Peter's-in-the-East in

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. He was also a

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judge and an official of the Court of the Arches.

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