Robert de Champeaux was the abbot of Tavistock Abbey, Devon, England from April 1285 to 1325. He was known for his "piety and zeal for improvement" and has been described as probably "the greatest and wisest" of "the abbots in the later monastic period".
Career
Abbot Robert's abbacy was long and regarded as prosperous, and he is known from several documents. He was well known for the largess of his gifts of alms to the poor of Devon and for providing a living for church workers in the district.
He was an avid builder of church buildings.
The Church of St Eustachius in Tavistock township was built in 1318 by Abbot Robert Champeaux as was the church of St Mary and St Rumon in the same year.
He also added to the Monastery itself.
References
Notes
- Pole p. 41.
- Hoskins, W. G.; Finberg, H. P. R. (1952). "The Tragi-Comedy of Abbot Bonus". Devonshire Studies. London: Jonathan Cape.
- ^ Finberg p. 277.
- ^ Oliver p. 91.
- Alexander, J. J. (1937). "Tavistock in the Fifteenth Century". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 69: 247–285.
- Finberg p.180.
- Finberg p. 92, 233.
- Hall, John G. (December 1931 – January 1932). "Notes on Denbury". Devon & Exeter Gazette.
- Finberg p. 226.
- Robert Brentano,Two Churches: England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century, With an Additional Essay by the Author. (University of California Press, 1988) p 246.
- Church of St Eustachius at Historic England.org.uk.
Bibliography
- Finberg, H. P. R. (2014) . Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 9781107453715.
- Oliver, George (1846). "Abbey of Tavistock, in the deanery of Tavistock". Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis, Being a Collection of Records and Instruments. Hannaford. pp. 89–112.
- Pole, Sir William (1791). Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon. J. Nichols.