Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, was a 13th-century English church leader and theologian renowned for his piety, scholarship, and conflicts with royal authority over the rights of the Church.

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instanceOf Archbishop of Canterbury
Roman Catholic saint
human
medieval scholar
theologian
advocated clerical independence from secular authority
alsoKnownAs Edmund of Abingdon
surface form: Edmund Rich of Abingdon

Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
surface form: Saint Edmund of Abingdon
appointedBy Pope Gregory IX
birthDate circa 1175
birthPlace Abingdon
surface form: Abingdon, Berkshire, England
burialPlace Pontigny Abbey
surface form: Pontigny Abbey, France
canonizationDate 1246
canonizationStatus canonized saint
canonizedBy Pope Innocent IV
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
deathDate 1240-11-16
deathPlace Soisy-Bouy, near Pontigny, France
educatedAt University of Oxford
Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
endTime 1240 (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
era 13th century
feastDay November 16
fieldOfWork scholastic philosophy
theology
fullName Edmund of Abingdon
knownFor personal austerity and piety
promoting ecclesiastical reform
scholarly work in logic and theology
languageOfWorkOrName Anglo-Norman
surface form: Anglo-Norman French

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monarchDuringOffice Henry III of England
mother Mabel of Abingdon
notableFor conflicts with King Henry III of England
defending the rights and liberties of the Church against royal interference
occupation archbishop
priest
university teacher
partOf medieval English Church hierarchy
patronage Abingdon
positionHeld Archbishop of Canterbury
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
sibling Robert Rich
startTime 1234 (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
taughtAt University of Oxford
taughtSubject arts and logic at the University of Paris
theology at the University of Oxford
veneratedIn Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
wrote De Institutione Novitiorum
Speculum Ecclesiae

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Edmund historicallyBorneBy Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
St Edmund Hall, Oxford namedAfter Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
this entity surface form: Saint Edmund of Abingdon
Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury alsoKnownAs Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
subject surface form: Saint Edmund Rich
this entity surface form: Saint Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon alsoKnownAs Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
this entity surface form: Saint Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon alsoKnownAs Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury
this entity surface form: St Edmund of Canterbury