Eustace of Fauconberg
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Eustace of Fauconberg was a medieval English Bishop of London from 1221 to 1228 and was also Lord High Treasurer.
Biography
Eustace was the son of Walter de Fauconberg of Rise-in-Holderness in the East Riding of the English county of Yorkshire.
Eustace was selected as treasurer in 1217, probably on 4 November, and held the office until his death.<ref name=Handbook103>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 103</ref> He held the prebend of Holbourn in the diocese of London<ref name=BHOLondon>Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops</ref> before being elected to the see of London on 26 February 1221 and consecrated on 25 April 1221.<ref name=Handbook258>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 258</ref>
Eustace died between 24 and 31 October 1228.<ref name=Handbook258/> There was a tomb memorial to him in the quire at Old St Paul's Cathedral.<ref>"Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p93: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909</ref>
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