1. Richard Poore or Poor was a medieval English bishop best known for his role in the establishment of Salisbury Cathedral and the City of Salisbury, moved from the nearby fortress of Old Sarum.
17 Facts About Richard Poore
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Richard Poore served as Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.
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Richard Poore was the brother of Herbert Poore, who served as bishop of Salisbury from 1194 to 1217.
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Richard Poore became Dean of Salisbury in 1197, was nominated unsuccessfully to the see of Winchester in 1205, and attained the see of Durham in 1213.
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Richard Poore served as one of the executors of King John's estate.
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Richard Poore owed his move to the see of Salisbury to the papal legate, Cardinal Guala Bicchieri.
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Richard Poore laid out the town of Salisbury in 1219, to allow the workers building the cathedral a less cramped town than the old garrison town at Old Sarum.
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Richard Poore welcomed the first Franciscan friars to Salisbury around 1225.
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Richard Poore served as a royal justice in 1218 and 1219.
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In 1223, with the fall from power of Peter des Roches, Ranulph earl of Chester, and Falkes de Breaute, Richard Poore helped Hubert de Burgh take over the government, along with Stephen Langton and Jocelin of Wells.
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Richard Poore petitioned Pope Gregory IX to have the second bishop of Salisbury, Osmund de Sees, canonized, but was unsuccessful.
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In 1220, while Richard Poore was bishop of Salisbury, he ordered his clergy to instruct a few children so that the children might in turn teach the rest of the children in basic church doctrine and prayers.
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Richard Poore had the clergy preach every Sunday that children should not be left alone in a house with a fire or water.
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Richard Poore was an opponent of pluralism, the holding of more than one benefice at the same time.
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Richard Poore decreed that the clergy should not be involved in "worldly business".
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Richard Poore's tomb was claimed for both Durham and Salisbury, but most likely he was buried in the church at Tarrant Keyneston which was what he had wished.
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Richard Poore is commemorated with a statue in niche 170 on the west front of Salisbury Cathedral.