Stephen Bersted
Stephen Bersted | |
|---|---|
Canon of Chichester | |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 24 September 1262 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 21 October 1287 |
Stephen Bersted[a] (died 1287) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.
Life
Bersted was from a humble background,Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.[5] By June 1276 he was back in royal favor, for King Edward I of England attended the ceremony held that month where Bersted oversaw the translation of the relics of Richard of Chichester to a new shrine.[3]
Bersted became blind[3] a few years before he died on 21 October 1287. He was probably related to Thomas Bersted who was Dean of Chichester, and another Stephen of Bersted who was also a canon of Chichester.[1]
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References
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Greenway, Diana E. (1996). "Bishops". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300. Vol. 5: Chichester. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
- Knowles, Clive H. (2004). "Bersted, Stephen (b. before 1220, d. 1287)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2228. Retrieved 27 November 2007. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- OCLC 213820968.
- ISBN 978-0-19-922687-0.