Stephen Birchington

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Stephen Birchington (???? - 1407)^[1] was a British monk and writer in the 14th Century. His name probably derives from a village in the isle of Thanet. He became a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury in 1382, though it is said that he had a previous connection to that house. For some time he held the offices of treasurer and warden of the manors of the monastery.

Works

He wrote Vitae Archicpiscopcrum Cant., which was later edited and republished by historian Henry Wharton in his Anglia Sacra. Wharton hypothesizes that Birchington wrote another and longer book, the Lives of the Archbishops, which was not preserved. There were three other manuscripts found in the same codex as the Vitæ, which Wharton suggests were also written by Birchington: De Regibus Anglorum, De Pontifinihus Roxnanis, and De Imperatoribus Romanis.

References

↑ Nigel Ramsay (October 2006). "Stephen Birchington". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2440. Retrieved October 10, 2012.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1886). "Birchington, Stephen". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 05. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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Name	Birchington, Stephen
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Short description	monk and historian
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Date of death	1407
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