Robert Champeaux
Robert de Champeaux was the abbot of Tavistock Abbey, Devon, England[1][2][3] from April 1285[4] to 1325.[3] He was known for his "piety and zeal for improvement"[4] and has been described as probably "the greatest and wisest" of "the abbots in the later monastic period".[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Abbot Robert's abbacy was long[6] and regarded as prosperous, and he is known from several documents.[7][8] He was well known for the largess of his gifts of alms to the poor of Devon[9][10] and for providing a living for church workers in the district.[4]
He was an avid builder of church buildings.
The Church of St Eustachius in Tavistock township was built in 1318 by Abbot Robert Champeaux[11] as was the church of St Mary and St Rumon in the same year.[4]
He also added to the Monastery itself.
References
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pole p. 41.
- ^ Hoskins, W. G.; Finberg, H. P. R. (1952). "The Tragi-Comedy of Abbot Bonus". Devonshire Studies. London: Jonathan Cape.
- ^ a b Finberg p. 277.
- ^ a b c d Oliver p. 91.
- ^ Alexander, J. J. (1937). "Tavistock in the Fifteenth Century". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 69: 247–285.
- ^ Finberg p.180.
- ^ Finberg p. 92, 233.
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- ^ Finberg p. 226.
- ^ Robert Brentano,Two Churches: England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century, With an Additional Essay by the Author. (University of California Press, 1988) p 246.
- ^ Church of St Eustachius at Historic England.org.uk.
Bibliography
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