Grosseteste

Robert, an English clergyman; born in Strad broke, Suffolk, about 1175; educated at Lincoln, Oxford, and Paris; he had for some years been the first teacher of theology in the Francis can school at Oxford, and had held eight archdeaconries and other preferments, when in 1235 he was elected Bishop of Lincoln. He forthwith undertook in the most vigorous fashion the reformation of abuses, embroiling himself thereby first with his own chapter and next with Pope Innocent IV., whom _he twice visited at Lyons, in 1244-1246 and 1249-1250. He was excommunicated by Innocent, but’ the feeling of the English nation sustained him, his clergy went on obeying him as_ if nothing had happened. He died in Buckden, Oct. 9, 1253.