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Ralph Baldock (or Ralph de Baldoc) was a medieval
Bishop of London
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...
.
Baldock was elected on 24 February 1304,
[ confirmed 10 May, and consecrated on 30 January 1306.][Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258]
Baldock served as Lord Chancellor
The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. T ...
of England from 21 April 1307 to 2 August 1307.[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' pp. 85-86] He licensed Bow Church
Bow Church is the parish church of St Mary and Holy Trinity, Stratford, Bow. It is located on a central reservation site in Bow Road (part of the A11), in Bow, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. There has been a church on the same site f ...
on 17 November 1311 as a chapel of ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
Often a chapel of ease is deliberately b ...
. He died on 24 July 1313.[
]
See also
* List of Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers
Citations
References
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Further reading
* Tipping, H. A.
‘Baldock, Ralph (d. 1313)’
, rev. M. C. Buck, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 November 2007
Bishops of London
Lord chancellors of England
1313 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Deans of St Paul's
14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
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