Robert Kilwardby | |||||||||||||||||
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England | |||||||||||||||||
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| Appointed | 11 October 1272 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term ended | 5 June 1278 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | William Chillenden | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Robert Burnell | ||||||||||||||||
| Other post(s) | Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina | ||||||||||||||||
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| Consecration | 26 February 1273 by William of Bitton (II.) | ||||||||||||||||
| Created cardinal | 12 March 1278 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Cardinal bishop | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | c. 1215 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 September 1279 Viterbo | ||||||||||||||||
| Buried | Dominican convent, Viterbo | ||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Paris | ||||||||||||||||
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Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215 – 11 September 1279) was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and a cardinal. Kilwardby was the first member of a mendicant order to attain a high ecclesiastical office in the English Church.