Roger de Meyland

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use British English|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name =Roger de Meyland | image = | religion =Catholic | title = Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield | elected = January 1257 | consecration = 10 March 1258 | ended = 16 December 1295 | predecessor = Roger Weseham | successor =Walter Langton | other_post =papal chaplain | death_date =16 December 1295 }}

'''Roger de Meyland'''{{efn|Or '''Roger de Longespée''', '''Roger de Meuland''', '''Roger Longespee''' or '''Roger de Molend'''}} (died 1295) was a medieval Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, England.

Roger was a cousin of King Henry III of England, although the exact relationship is unclear.<ref name=Moorman159>Moorman ''Church Life in England'' p. 159</ref> Roger was born c. 1215, and may have been a son of William de Longespee, uncle of Henry III. Little is known of his early career, and he first appears in 1257 as a canon of Lichfield and a papal chaplain.<ref name=DNB>Carpenter "Meuland, Roger de" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> He was elected in January 1257, and consecrated on 10 March 1258.<ref name=Handbook253>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 253</ref> His election was probably due to the influence of Richard of Cornwall, King Henry's brother, whom Roger later accompanied to Germany, where Richard had been elected king.<ref name=DNB/>

Roger was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1271.

Roger died on 16 December 1295.<ref name=Handbook253/>

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==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite ODNB |author=Carpenter, D. A. |title=Meuland [Meuleng, Meulent, Molend], Roger de [Master Longespée] |year= 2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/37908}} * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Moorman, John R. H. |author-link= John Moorman |title= Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century |year=1955|edition=Revised |publisher= Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge, UK |oclc= 213820968 }} {{refend}}

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before=William de L'Isle}} {{s-ttl | title=Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire | years=1271–1273}} {{s-aft | after=Gilbert de Kirkby}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before = Roger Weseham }} {{s-ttl | title = Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield | years=1257–1295 }} {{s-aft | after = Walter Langton}} {{s-end}}

{{Short description|13th-century Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield}}

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