biography
| name: |
Cantelupe, St Thomas de or St Thomas of Hereford
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pronunciation:
[kanteloop]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1218–1282)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, Paris, and Orléans, and was made Chancellor of Oxford University (1262). He supported the barons against Henry III, and was appointed Chancellor of England (1264–5) by Simon de Montfort. In 1275 he became Bishop of Hereford. Excommunicated by his archbishop over a dispute about jurisdiction (1282), he took his case to Rome, but died on the way there. His relics were brought to Hereford, where his shrine became almost as revered as that of Becket at Canterbury. He was canonized in 1320; feast day 3 October. |
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