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William de Kirkeby

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William de Kirkeby (died 1302[1]) was an English prior. He was prior at Wallingford Priory in the late 13th century. [2]

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The Bodleian Library holds a mutilated deed (c. 1280) showing some disputes between Kirkeby and Henry de Horsyndon, rector, and the parishioners of the parish of St. Mary the Greater in Wallingford. [3]

The Great Munden manor was received by Kirkeby when his brother John de Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely, died in 1290.[1] Oldbury, a Stoke Mandeville manor, was owned by Kirkeby's wife (Christiana) during the reign of king Edward I.[4]

Richard of Wallingford's father died when he just turned 10 years old (c. 1301-1302) and was soon thereafter adopted by Kirkeby and taken care. [5] Kirkeby sent Richard as a young man to Oxford University to get educated.[6][7]

Kirkeby died in 1302.[1]

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Sources

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  • Bodleian Library (1878). Calendar of Charters and Rolls Preserved in the Bodleian Library. Clarendon Press. p. 17.
  • Dugdale, William (1846). Monasticon Anglicanum...a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries...and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches...in England and Wales. Bohn. p. 278.
  • Hockey, Thomas; Bracher, Katherine; Bolt, Marvin; Trimble, Virginia; Jarrell, Richard; Palmeri, JoAnn; Marché, Jordan D.; Williams, Thomas; Ragep, F. Jamil (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-30400-7.
  • Lee, Sidney (1896). DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.
  • North, John (2007). God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-4474-5.