Wulstan Bransford was a medieval
Bishop of Worcester.
Bransford was first elected between 31 August and 8 September 1327 but the election was quashed.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 279] He was elected again about 4 January 1339 and consecrated on 21 March 1339. He tonsured the poet William de Rokayle, who was known as
William Langland
William Langland (; la, Willielmus de Langland; 1332 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as ''Piers Plowman'', an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes. The poem tr ...
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Bransford died on 6 August 1349.
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Bishops of Worcester
Priors of Worcester
14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1349 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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