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Walter de Merton

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Bishop of Rochester; Lord Chancellor of England; Founder of Merton College at Oxford University

Religious FiguresLived 1205 to 1277 · aged 72
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Walter de Merton was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester. For the first two years of the reign of Edward I he was - in all but name - Regent of England during the King's absence abroad.

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Walter de Merton was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester. For the first two years of the reign of Edward I he was - in all but name - Regent of England during the King's absence abroad. He died in 1277 after falling from his horse, and is buried in Rochester Cathedral.

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Lived 1205 to 1277 · aged 72
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