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Robert Birkenshaw

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Robert Birkenshaw (also Bekensall and Bekensaw) D.D. (d. 1526) was a Canon of Windsor from 1512 - 1525[1]

Career

He was appointed:

  • President of Queen's College, Cambridge 1508 - 1519
  • Rector of Revesby, Lincolnshire until 1505
  • Vicar of Croxton 1505
  • Rector of Chagford, Devon 1510
  • Rector of Bradwell-super-Mare, Essex 1512
  • Treasurer of Lincoln 1513
  • Chaplain and Almoner to Catherine of Aragon
  • Dean of Stoke-by-Clare 1517
  • Prebendary of Lincoln 1523

He was appointed to the first stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1512, and held the stall until 1525.

Notes

  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle


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