The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
=Hermann of Cologne= was a contemporary and friend of John Lathbury at
Oxford, c. 1343[1483]. It is impossible to identify him with any of the
other Hermanns who belonged to the Minorite Order at this time: e.g.
Hermann of Saxony, the lawyer (fl. 1337), or Hermann Gygas, the
historian[1484].
=Robert= (or =John=?) =Lamborne=,
‘the son of a baron, and the last heir of that barony, entered the
Order in London[1485].’
He became confessor to Queen Isabella in 1327[1486], and he still occupied
this office, ‘though he was so attenuated that he was almost or quite
blind,’ in 1343, when Clement VI granted him certain privileges[1487]. It
is however very doubtful whether he was ever at Oxford. The name occurs in
the Old Catalogue of Fellows of Merton College, under the reign of Edward
III. If the two are identical, Lamborne ought to be placed in the
Catalogue under Edward II, as he was clearly a friar in 1327; but there is
no good reason for assuming their identity: Robert Lamborn of Merton may
be a mistake for Reginald Lamborn[1488]. Friar John (?) Lamborne,
confessor to Queen Isabella, was buried in the choir of the Grey Friars
Church, London[1489].
=Reginald Lambourne= was B.D. of Merton College (c. 1350-1360), where he
was a pupil of the famous mathematicians, William Rede and John
Ashendon[1490]. He then entered the Benedictine Order, was at Eynsham
Abbey in 1363/4 and 1367, and incepted D.D. as a monk[1491]. He afterwards
took the Franciscan habit at Oxford, and died at Northampton[1492].
_Epistola a Reginaldo Lambourne, monacho simplici Eynshamensi, ad quendam
Johannem London, de significatione eclipsium lunae ‘hoc anno instante,
1363.’_
_Epistola a Reginaldo Lambourne monacho Eynshamensi_ [ad. Gul. Rede ut
videtur] _a{o} 1367, de conjunctionibus Saturni Jovis et Martis cum
prognosticatione malorum inde in annis 1368-1374 probabiliter
occurrentium._
MS. Bodl.:--Digby 176, fol. 50, and 40 (sec. xiv).
=Robert Eliphat= flourished in the middle of the fourteenth century; he is
placed among the Masters of the English Province by Bartholomew of
Pisa[1493]. Pits states that he was famous at Oxford and Paris[1494].
There can be little doubt that he is identical with =Robert Alifax= or
=Halifax=, the fifty-sixth Master of the Franciscans at Cambridge[1495].
_Robertus Haliphax de sententiarum libris I et II._
MS. Assisi 161 (sec. xiv).
_Primus Eliphat super sententias._
MSS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 14514 (sec. xiv).
Vienna:--Bibl. Palat. 1511, f. 110-120 (sec. xiv).
_Quaestiones Rob. Eliphat._
MSS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 14576 (xiv), 15561, f. 243 (xv), 15880 (xiv),
15888, f. 181, (xiv)[1496].
=Gilbert Peckham=, fellow of Merton in 1324 and 1339, may be identical
with the fifty-ninth Master of the Minorites at Cambridge[1497].
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