Richard Ullerston DD (died August or September 1423) was a

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and

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. Ullerston was born in the

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. Having been ordained

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in December, 1383, he became a

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(1391–1403), holding office in the college, and proceeding to

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and

of Oxford University in 1394. In 1408, he became

of the University and in the same year wrote at the request of the Robert Hallum,

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a sketch of proposed ecclesiastical reforms: "Petitiones quoad reformationis ecclesiae militantis", which is available online (see below). Ullerston wrote a commentary on the

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(1409), one on the

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(1415), another on the Canticle of Canticles (1415), and "Defensorium donationis ecclesiasticae", a work in defence of the

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. At the request of Richard Courtenay he wrote a treatise, "De officio militari" 'On the military office', addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales. From 1403, Ullerston held the

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, and from 1407 the

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Ullerston's ''Petitiones quoad reformationem ecclesiae'': http://web.wlu.ca/history/cnighman/cc/Petitiones.pdf 14th-century births Year of birth unknown 1423 deaths Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford Chancellors of the University of Oxford English Roman Catholic theologians 14th-century English Roman Catholic priests 15th-century English Roman Catholic priests {{England-academic-administrator-stub