Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1991.
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'Prebendaries: Highworth', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury, (London, 1991) pp. 76. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol4/p76 [accessed 25 April 2024]
LIST 36 PREBENDARIES OF HIGHWORTH
PREBEND
Church of Highworth (Wilts., royal manor), with 3 hides, held by Ralph the priest, 1086 (DB I 65b). Churches of 'Worda' gr. to cans. by bp. Osmund 1091 (carta). Conf. by pope 26 Nov. 1146 (PUE II no. 53, p. 209), and by Henry II 1158 (RSO I 205).
Preb. prob. in existence by c. 1150 (Psalter list). Usually called 'Worth', but 'Hauteworthe' in 1291 (IV/C.2/Royal charters/13).
Pr.-preb.; cantoris side; term of residence c. 1270: Jan.-March.
Valuations
1220s 60m.; 1226 60m.; c. 1284 50m.; 1291 £100
PREBENDARIES
Geoffrey
Precentor by 15 Apr. 1224 (list 3). Occ. this preb. on last occ., Oct. 1226 × Feb. 1227 (app. 1).
M. William de la Corner
Preb. Teinton Regis by 7 May 1270, res. by 10 Dec. 1274 (list 57). Occ. this preb. May-June 1284 (app. 2; cf. CPR 1281-92 pp. 101, 156). Also papal chapl., precentor of York (York Minster Fasti I 16, II 7); archdcn. of Northumberland (1 Fasti II 41). Candidate in episcopal el. of 10 May 1288, when he won ten votes (app. 3). Still this preb. when el. bp. either 24 or 25 Nov. 1288, temps. 26 Feb. 1289, cons. 8 May (list 1).
Peter of Savoy
Royal coll. to this preb. 15 Feb. 1289, s.v. (CPR 1281-92 p. 313), but preb. not yet vacant (ibid. p. 340; IV/C.2/Royal charters/13). In possession by 4 Feb. 1290 (CPR 1281-92 P. 340). Last occ. as can. 7 March 1297 (CCR 1296-1302 p. 86). Vacated this preb. on becoming dean, by 30 June 1297 (list 2 and below), presum. transf. to preb. Heytesbury (list 35).
Amadeus of Savoy
Royal coll., s.v., 30 June 1297, in succession to Peter of Savoy (CPR 1292-1301 p. 257). Also can. of Lincoln (2 Fasti I 118), Lyon, Dublin; archdcn. of Oxford, dean of Bridgnorth (CPR 1292-1301 p. 339). Archdcn. of Reims, brother of Peter of Savoy, and king's kinsman (ibid., and Eugene L. Cox, The Green Count of Savoy (Princeton, 1967) p. 376).