Robert Baldock

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Career

Baldock was archdeacon of Middlesex when he was named Controller of the Wardrobe and Lord Privy Seal on 27 January 1320Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and then Prebend of Aylesbury in August 1320.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He remained Lord Privy Seal until 8 July 1323,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". before being named Lord Chancellor of England on 20 August 1323.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Baldock was elected Bishop of Norwich on 23 July 1325,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but before consecration resigned the office on 3 September 1325 to avoid a collision between the pope and the King.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

In October 1326, Baldock was one of the small number of supporters who fled London with King Edward when Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer invaded. He remained with the King and the Despensers, the King's particular favorites, in their flight across England to the Despensers' lands in Wales, and was one of the last handful who attempted to cross to Ireland and failed.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He and the King remained fugitives until their hiding place was revealed. Baldock lost his offices and was imprisoned in November 1326.

Death

Unlike the Despensers, who suffered quick trials and executions, Baldock was a clergyman, and so in February 1327 was sent to London for trial by fellow clergy.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He was placed under house arrest at Hereford Palace (the Bishop of Hereford's London residence).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". A mob broke into the house, severely beat him, and threw him into Newgate Prison, where he was murdered by some of the inmates.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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Political offices
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