Robert (archdeacon of Totnes)
Robert was the Archdeacon of Totnes before 1184.[1] He was the second son of Gille, or Egidia, of Salisbury and he appeared as Robert fitzGille in at least one document of Bartholomew Iscanus.[2] His second brother was John of Salisbury. Robert and his younger brothers (John and Richard, who became a canon of Merton Priory) were close, and Robert even seems at some point to have bailed Richard out of trouble. Despite being a canon of Exeter, and therefore bound by clerical celibacy, Robert was married and had a son. He was also styled 'magister' and described as a physician: he left all his medical books to Plympton Priory, whither he retired sometime before his death in 1186.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Wright, W. H. K., ed. (1889). Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton. Tiverton: William Masland. p. 147.
- ^ Frank Barlow, 'John of Salisbury and his brothers', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 46 (1995), 95-109.
- ^ Barlow, 99
- ^ Fizzard, Alison (2008). Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill. p. 51. ISBN 978-9004163010.
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