Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 3, Lincoln. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1977.
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'Prebendaries: Banbury', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 3, Lincoln, (London, 1977) pp. 51-52. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol3/pp51-52 [accessed 24 April 2024]
LIST 18 PREBENDARIES OF BANBURY
PREBEND
Church of Banbury (Oxon., bp.'s manor T.R.E. and 1086, D.B. I 155b); portion of tithes gr. to Eynsham abbey prob. 1094 (see V.C.H. Oxon. X 96); church. conf. as preb. by pope 6 Feb. 1146 (R.A.L. I no. 252 p. 199) and 5 June 1163 (ibid. no. 255 p. 207). Pres. by preb. Feb. 1278 (Rot. Gravesend p. 233). See also Rot. Grosseteste pp. 447-8.
Valuations
1254 £25; 1291 £30, vicar £6 13s. 4d., Eynsham £4 (Taxatio p. 32a)
PREBENDARIES
Preb. evidently vacant year Sept. 1185 - Sept. 1186 (P.R. 32 Hen. II (P.R.S. xxxvi) p. 83).
John de Sancto Egidio
First occ. as can. and this preb. 20 Dec. 1231 × 19 Dec. 1232 (Rot. Welles II 40). Last occ. as this preb. 28 Jan. 1237 (Rot. Grosseteste p. 394). Transf. to preb. Leighton Buzzard by 10 Dec. 1238 (list 44). Perhaps to be identified with John of Banbury, can. (below p. 130).
M. Serlo
First occ. as can. 17 May 1237 (Rot. Grosseteste p. 254). Occ. as this preb. before and on 13 Dec. 1238 (Cart. Eynsham I no. 227). Last certain occ. 3 Feb. 1251 (R.A.L. V no. 1461), but may occ. later, 1248 × 54 (ibid. VI no. 1784, cf. × no. 2915).
[Peter Chaceporc
Royal gr. of this preb., s.v., 15 Nov. 1253, and request for inst. 20 Nov. (C.P.R. 1247-58 pp. 251, 252). But preb. said not to be vacant at this time, so Chaceporc to have next vacant preb., 28 Dec. 1253 (ibid. p. 259). Became treas. and unident. preb. 22 March 1254 (list 5, and below p. 114).]
M. Robert de Esthall (fn. 1)
Presum. can. by 22 May 1261, when occ. with other cans. (M.R.A. Lichfield no. 400). Occ. as this preb. 4 and 23 Dec. 1273 (R.A.L. III no. 930). Also preb. of London; archdcn. of Worcester, from 1256 or 1257, to 1271 or later (Fasti 1066-1300 I 46, II 106). D. by 6 Feb. 1275 (Rot. Gravesend p. 226).
M. Nicholas de Waltham
First occ. as can. (unident. preb.) 15 Sept. 1269 (Rot. Gravesend p. 37). Occ. as this preb. 17 Feb. 1278 (ibid. p. 233) and 17 March 1291 (Reg. Sutton VII 13). Still alive 9 Nov. 1293 (ibid. IV 131). D. by 1 Nov. 1295 (Reg. I fo. 360r).
Theobald of Bar-le-Duc (fn. 2)
Recommended by king; gr. annual pension of £20 by bp., until he could receive a preb. worth 60 marks, 13 Apr. 1294 (Reg. Sutton IV 183). Coll. by bp. to this preb. 1 Nov. 1295 (Reg. I fo. 360r). Also preb. and treas. of York. Last occ. as can. of Lincoln 17 Jan. 1301 (Reg. Bon. VIII nos. 3852, 3856: not in C.P.L.). Became bp. of Liège 1303, res. this preb. by 14 Apr. (Reg. II fo. 277v).