Robert Sherborne (born 1453 died 1536) was

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from 1505 to 1508 and

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from 1508 to 1536. Sherborne was born in

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, and educated at

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and

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. He was

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of St. Cross Hospital, near Winchester and a

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until 1493. Sherborne was

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(1494–1496),

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and of Taunton (1496–1505) and

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(1499–1505). Exceptionally, he held ecclesiastical posts prior to ordination: he was made a deacon in 1499 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1501. He acted as royal ambassador to the pope several times. From 1505 to 1508 he was

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, a post he obtained by forging a papal bull. When the forgery was discovered, Henry VII wrote to the pope on his behalf. Sherborne does not seem to have been punished, and in 1508 was made bishop of Chichester, this time legitimately by a real papal bull. Sherborne was a patron of the artist

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, commissioning several series of paintings from him. He founded the Free Grammar School in Rolleston, around 1520, which continued to 1909.The Roots of Education
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* ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' * Steer, Francis W., ''Robert Sherburne Bishop of Chichester: Some Aspects of his Life Reconsidered'', Chichester Papers No. 16 (Chichester City Council, 1960) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sherborne, Robert 1450s births 1536 deaths People from Hampshire (before 1974) People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford Deans of St Paul's Bishops of St Davids Bishops of Chichester Archdeacons of Buckingham Archdeacons of Huntingdon and Wisbech Archdeacons of Taunton 16th-century English Roman Catholic bishops