Robert Wyvil (or Wyvill or Wyville) was a medieval

Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat ...

Wyvil was keeper of the Privy Seal of Edward, duke of Aquitaine in 1326 when he was named on 26 October

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, which office he held until the early part of 1327.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 94 Wyvil was nominated to the

see of Salisbury The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of Dorset (excepting the deaneries of Bournemouth and Christchurch, which fall within the ...

on 16 April 1330 and consecrated on 15 July 1330. He had a reputation for stressing his authority and defending the rights of his see: Wyvil was the first Salisbury bishop to use 'Sarum' on his seal, issued a mandate against a man impersonating a hermit, and nearly used a knight in a

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to maintain the cathedral's ownership of

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. He died on 4 September 1375.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 270

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* Bishops of Salisbury Lords Privy Seal 1375 deaths 14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown {{England-bishop-stub