Roger Weseham

For the medieval archdeacon and university chancellor, see Roger de Weseham (Oxford).

Roger Weseham
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
Appointed	between 17 May and 4 July 1245
Term ended	resigned November or December 1256
Predecessor	Robert de Monte Pessulano
Successor	Roger de Meyland
Other posts	Dean of Lincoln
Orders
Consecration	between 17 May and 4 July 1245
Personal details
Died	c. 20 May 1257
Buried	Lichfield Cathedral
Denomination	Catholic

Roger Weseham (also Roger de Weseham; died 1257) was an English medieval Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

Weseham was probably a native of Weasenham, Norfolk and was educated at Oxford University. He graduated with a master's in arts before 1233.^[1] He was then a lecturer at Oxford University.^[2] He was Archdeacon of Oxford by May 1237 until 1240, when he was appointed Dean of Lincoln by Robert Grosseteste, who had made Roger a protégé.^[1] He was nominated as a bishop and consecrated between 17 May and 4 July 1245.^[3]

While bishop, Weseham wrote an Instituta for his clergy, in order to teach them Christian doctrine and help them select sermon topics.^[4] One of the subjects he wanted his clergy to cover the basics tenets of the Christian faith. To do this, he listed all the doctrines in the Apostle's Creed, and covered possible sermon themes relating to each doctrine.^[5] He also gathered learned men around him, including the Franciscan Brother Vincent, John of Basingstoke, a Greek scholar, and Ralph de Sempringham, who became Chancellor of the University of Oxford.^[1]

Weseham resigned the see in November or December 1256 and died about 20 May 1257.^[3] He resigned due to paralysis.^[6] He was buried in Lichfield Cathedral.^[1]

Citations

1 2 3 4 Franklin "Wesham, Roger of" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Moorman Church Life in England p. 163
1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
↑ Moorman Church Life in England p. 181
↑ Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 67
↑ Moorman Church Life in England p. 183

References

Franklin, M. J. (2004). "Wesham, Roger of (d. 1257)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29066. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
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.
Moorman, John R. H. (1955). Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century (Revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Swanson, R. N. (1995). Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37950-4.

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Preceded by Robert de Monte Pessulano	Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1245–1256	Succeeded by Roger de Meyland

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Mercia	Diuma Ceollach Trumhere Jaruman

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Coventry & Lichfield	Alexander de Stavenby Hugh de Pateshull Roger Weseham Roger de Meyland Walter Langton Roger Northburgh Robert de Stretton Walter Skirlaw Richard le Scrope John Burghill John Catterick James Cary William Heyworth William Booth Nicholas Close Reginald Boulers John Hales William Smyth John Arundel Geoffrey Blythe Rowland Lee

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Late Medieval	Joceline Kirmington Raymond de Got Roger Martival Henry Mansfield Antony Bek William Bateman John de Ufford Thomas Bradwardine Simon Briselee John Stretley Richard Ravenser John Sheppey John Mackworth Robert Flemming George Fitzhugh Geoffrey Simeon Thomas Wolsey John Constable George Heneage John Taylor

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