Robert Birkenshaw Explained

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

Career

He was appointed:

• President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1508 - 1519
• Rector of Revesby, Lincolnshire until 1505
• Vicar of Croxton 1505
• Rector of St Michael the Archangel's Church, 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 and References

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