Robert Birkenshaw

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Name Robert Birkenshaw

Robert Birkenshaw (also Bekensall and Bekensaw) D.D. (d. 1526) was a Canon of Windsor from 1512 - 1525

Career

He was appointed:

President of Queen's College, Cambridge 1508 - 1519

Rector of Revesby, Lincolnshire until 1505

Vicar of Croxton 1505

Rector of 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.

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