Walter Burdun Explained

Walter Burdun (also Burdi, de Burton, de Bordon, or de Bourton) was an English medieval churchman, college fellow, and university chancellor.^[1]

From 1306 to 1308, Burdun was Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford between 1312 and 1328. where he served as bursar.^[2] He was a prebend at Salisbury through Simon of Ghent, Bishop of Salisbury and also a Chancellor of Oxford University.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: . . Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University. 1988. 521–522. 0-333-39917-X. Hibbert. Christopher. Christopher Hibbert.
2. Book: Emden, Alfred Brotherston . A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500 . 1: A to E . Burto, Walter de . . 1957 . 9780199515622 .
3. Book: Pantin, William Abel . The English Church in the Fourteenth Century: Based on the Birkbeck Lectures, 1948 . https://books.google.com/books?id=kPCm4F4N_A4C&pg=PA112 . . The Geography of Learning . 2010 . 112–113 . 978-1108015295 .