Walter Mauclerk

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix =
name =Walter Mauclerk
honorific-suffix =


imagesize =
small

caption =
order = 7th
office = Lord High Treasurer
term_start =13 Nov 1228
term_end =1233
vicepresident =
viceprimeminister =
deputy =
lieutenant =
monarch = Henry III
predecessor = Eustace of Fauconberg
successor = Peter des Rivaux
constituency =
majority =
birth_date =
birth_place =
death_date =about 28 October 1248
death_place =Oxford
nationality =
party =
spouse =
relations =
children =
residence =
alma_mater =
occupation =
profession =
religion =Christian:Catholic


website =
footnotes =Infobox bishopbiog
name =Walter Mauclerk


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Carlisle
Title = Bishop of Carlisle
Period = 1223–1246
Predecessor = Hugh of Beaulieu
Successor =Silvester de Everdon
ordination =
bishops =
post =Canon of Carlisle Cathedral
date of birth =
place of birth =
date of death =about 28 October 1248
place of death =Oxford

Walter Mauclerk (or Walter Mauclerc) was a medieval Bishop of Carlisle and Lord High Treasurer of England.

Life

His origins are unknown, although he had a brother who was prior of Reading Abbey. Another kinsman, possibly a nephew, Robert Barri was named prior of Carlisle Cathedral while Walter was bishop. He is first recorded as a financial clerk in Normandy in 1202, and then later that same year as holding a church in Falaise. With the loss of Normandy, he returned to England and the king's court,Vincent "Mauclerk, Walter (d. 1248)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18355 Online Edition] accessed 20 November 2007] and received a prebend in Exeter in 1203. In 1204 and 1205 he helped administer Lincolnshire, collecting tallage other taxes.Pegues "Clericus" in Legal Administration" "English Historical Review" pp. 534-535] He served King John of England in Rome as an envoy to Pope Innocent III in 1214 where he was expected to neutralize any baronial agents that might be sent. At the time, he was still a royal clerk.Jones "King John and Magna Carta" p. 50] In 1215, he was sent to Ireland, although only for a short time. He served as a royal justice in the Midlands in 1218, and as a royal justice in Nottingham in 1219, and in 1221 appointed as a forest justice in York, but was instead sent to Cumberland. He served as sheriff of Cumberland from 1222 to 1233.Carpenter "Decline of the Curial Sheriff" "English Historical Review" p. 11] He was a canon of Carlisle Cathedral [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33856 British History Online Bishops of Carlisle] accessed on 20 October 2007] before he was elected to the see of Carlisle about 22 August 1223 and was consecrated that winter.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 235]

He continued to serve King Henry III of England, going to Cologne in 1225 as part of a diplomatic mission attempting to arrange a marriage between the king and a daughter of the duke of Austria. In 1227 he was in Poitou on the king's business. He was Treasurer from 1228 to 1233, Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 103] when he was expelled from office even though he had been granted the office for life. This was a side effect of the fall from power of Hubert de Burgh during King Henry III of England's reign.Powell " The House of Lords" p. 154] However, with the fall from power of Peter des Roches Walter returned to royal service. In 1235 he was once more in charge of an embassy attempting to find a bride for King Henry, this time to Flanders for a daughter of the count of Ponthieu.

He resigned the see on 26 June 1246 and died about 28 October 1248 at Oxford. He resigned the bishopric to become a Dominican at Oxford. During his time as bishop, he set the financial affairs of his diocese on a firm footing, and left most of his property to the diocese or to the Dominicans at Oxford.

Notes

References

* [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33856 British History Online Bishops of Carlisle] accessed on 20 October 2007
*
*
* Jones, J. A. P. "King John and Magna Carta" London:Longman 1971 ISBN 0-582-31463-1
*
* Powell, J. Enoch and Keith Wallis "The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A History of the English House of Lords to 1540" London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1968
* Vincent, Nicholas "Mauclerk, Walter (d. 1248)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18355 Online Edition] accessed 20 November 2007

Persondata
NAME= Mauclerk, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Mauclerc, Walter
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of Carlisle
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH=about 28 October 1248
PLACE OF DEATH=