Walter de Stapledon was an English divine. He was born in 1261 at Annery, Devon and died in 1326. Educated at Oxford, he occupied the chair of cannon law their before being elected bishop of Exeter in 1307. He devoted a great deal of time and money to the rebuilding of Exetercathedral. In conjunction with his brother, Richard de Stapledon he founded Stapledon Hall, Oxford which later became Exeter College, for the benefit of poor scholars from the Exeter diocese. Walter de Stapledon was murdered by a mob at Cheapside in 1326. Research Walter de Stapledon
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