9 October 1253 A.D. Robert Grosseteste Passes—Bishop of Lincoln & Chancellor of Oxford University
9 October 1253 A.D. Robert Grosseteste Passes—Bishop of Lincoln & Chancellor of Oxford University No author. “Who was Robert Grosseteste?” Electronic Grosseteste. N.d. http://www.grosseteste.com/bio.htm . Accessed 14 May 2014. Who was Robert Grosseteste? Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253) . Born into a humble family from Stowe, Suffolk, this English theologian and philosopher went on to become a major leader in the English church of the thirteenth century. The early years of Grosseteste’s life are obscure, but it would appear that he completed the first stages of his education at a cathedral school in England, perhaps Hereford. In 1192, Gerard of Wales recommended Grosseteste to the bishop of Hereford, noting that he excelled in the liberal arts, canon law and even medicine. This seems to have guaranteed Grosseteste’s first ecclesiastical appointment as he remained part of the household of bishop William de Vere, until his death in 1198. At thi...