York Archbishops' Registers

1 . Register 8 f.230 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Mandate
Section Type:	Register, Vicar-general, Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Mandate of Robert de Pickering [canon of York and vicar-general] to Brother Robert de Sheffield (Shefeld), Knight Templar, who had been sent to Kirkstall Abbey, but had left the monastery and was suspected of being a recidivist in heresy and who had used insulting words towards the abbot and convent both before and after leaving, ordering him to behave well towards them on pain of excommunication.
Subjects:	Knights Templar, Heresy, Religious Houses, Monasteries
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 5.
Dates:	Document date: 1311/00/00 (uncertain, inferred)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Sheffield, Brother, Robert, fl 1311-1312, Former Knight Templar (brother (religious)) Sender: Pickering, Master, Robert, d by 1 January 1333, Dean of York (none given)