John of Tynemouth (canon lawyer)

Along with a few other instructors, including Simon of Southwell, Honorius of Kent, and possibly Nicholas de Aquila, John was among the first securely attested legal teachers at Oxford.[5] In 1203 John was employed in pleading at Rome on Hubert Walter's behalf in a case against Gerald of Wales.[1] By 25 June 1206, John was holding the prebend of Langford Ecclesia in the Diocese of Lincoln; it is unclear when he relinquished this position.[8] In 1203 the medieval chronicler Thomas of Marlborough, who was a monk of Evesham Abbey, pleaded a case for Evesham before Hubert Walter and later, in his chronicle, he noted that John, Simon of Southwell, and Honorius of Kent, by now all canon lawyers in the archbishop's household, sided with the abbey.Surviving evidence shows that Simon and John frequently found themselves on opposing sides of cases, which suggests a rivalry between the two over their expositions of canon law.Another set of student notes from his lectures, this time entitled Quaestiones, survives as part of British Library MS Royal E.VII.
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