Robert Walsingham (died in or after 1313) was a Carmelite scholastic theologian and philosopher.
14-451: Robert Walsingham may refer to: Robert Walsingham (theologian) , 14th-century English theologian and Carmelite friar Robert Walsingham (pirate) , 17th-century English pirate Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736–1780), also known as Robert Walsingham, English politician, MP for Fowey and Knaresborough See also [ edit ] Walsingham (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
28-519: A conflation of Robert Walsingham with John Baconthorpe and John Walsham . This fictional John was said to have become Carmelite provincial master of England in 1326. The confusion was dismantled by Bartomeu Xiberta [ ca ] in 1931. Robert Graystanes Robert de Graystanes (d. 1336?), also known as Robert Greystones or Robert Graystanes , was a 14th-century English Benedictine monk, an unsuccessful candidate to become bishop of Durham around 1333, and supposed chronicler of
42-626: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Walsingham (theologian) Walsingham was a student of one William Paganerus at the University of Oxford around 1280 or 1290. In 1303, he supported the English provincial master William Lidlyngton against the decisions of the Carmelite general chapter meeting in Narbonne to divide
56-619: Is now lost. The surviving quodlibeta are usually dated to 1312–1313. They "are among the earliest scholastic works where the author cites his contemporaries." Among these "moderns", as he calls them, are Henry Harclay, Godfrey of Fontaines , Peter of Auvergne , Thomas Aquinas , Alexander of Hales , Gerard of Bologna , Henry of Ghent , Giles of Rome , John Duns Scotus , Simon of Faversham , Robert Cowton and Richard of Conington . He had an especially high opinion of Henry of Ghent, whom he calls "the great". Among older authorities, he cites Aristotle , Avicenna and Averroes . Walsingham
70-467: The English province. He was supposedly already an old man by 1305. He obtained his master's degree sometime thereafter but before 12 February 1312, when he and Henry of Harclay held disputations . Two quodlibeta by Walsingham are known from a single manuscript. The longer is said to contain 22 questions, although only 19 are present. The other contains six questions. There was once a larger collection, Quodlibeta maiora , cited by John Bale , but it
84-474: The archbishop of York, promised to confirm the election; but in the meanwhile (31 October) Robert, who had visited the king at "Lutogersale" ( Ludgershall in Wiltshire or Buckinghamshire ?), had been told that Pope John XXII had given the see "by provision" to Richard de Bury , "the king's clerk". The archbishop, however, after consulting his canons and lawyers, consecrated Robert (Sunday, 14 November), with
98-478: The assistance of John Kirkby, Bishop of Carlisle and (allegedly) the Bishop of Armagh . The new bishop was installed at Durham on 18 November, and then, returning to the king to claim the temporalities of his see, was refused an audience and referred to the next parliament for an answer. Meanwhile, (14 October), the temporalities had been granted to Richard de Bury, who, having the archbishop now on his side, received
112-434: The church of Durham . Robert de Graystanes may have been born at Greystanes , three miles south-west of Sheffield . He described himself as Doctor Theologicus . He had been sub-prior of St. Mary's for twenty-six years or more when Louis de Beaumont , bishop of Durham, died on 24 September 1333. On 15 October he was elected to the vacant see, after the permission of King Edward III had been obtained. William Melton ,
126-424: The election of King John's brother Morgan (1213), and carries it down to his own resignation. According to Henry Wharton , however, he copied his history as far as 1285 (1283?) from the manuscript now called Cotton MS Julius D. 4. His work is of considerable value, especially as it nears the writer's own time. The "Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres" – including Coldingham, Graystanes, and William de Chambre –
140-529: The grief he showed by declaring that Graystanes was better fitted to be pope than he was to hold the least office in the church. Graystanes was buried in the chapter-house. William Hutchinson recorded his epitaph: De Graystanes natus jacet hic Robertus humatus, Legibus armatus, rogo sit Sanctis sociatus. Graystanes supposedly continued the history of the church of Durham, which had been begun by Simeon of Durham , an anonymous continuator, and Geoffrey de Coldingham . He takes up Coldingham's narrative with
154-454: The oath of the Durham clergy (10 January 1334). Robert, knowing that his convent was too poor to oppose the king and the pope, refused to continue the struggle. He seems to have resumed his old office, and to have died about 1336. Robert Surtees says that he "survived his resignation scarcely a year", and died of disappointment. Richard de Bury, upon hearing of his death, apologised for
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182-646: Was first printed with excisions by Wharton in 1691. The best edition is that edited by James Raine for the Surtees Society in 1839. The chief manuscripts are (1) that in York Minster Library (MS xvi.I.12), which belongs to the 14th century; (2) Bodleian MS Laud 700 (which Hardy assigns to the same century), and Cotton MS Titus A. 2. John Leland reported another manuscript in the Carmelite Library at Oxford. Wharton followed
196-671: Was not a very influential thinker. Besides his quodlibeta , only excerpts from his Quaestiones ordinariae and Elucidationes sententiarum Petri Lombardi , a commentary on the Sentences , and preserved in two manuscripts. His Determinationes scripturae and his commentaries on Proverbs and Ecclesiasticus are apparently lost. Nevertheless, he influenced Robert Graystanes and John Baconthorpe calls him "my reverend master". His quodlibeta are cited by Johannes Brammart . The figure of John Walsingham , first cited by Johannes Trithemius in 1531 and then by many others, results from
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