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Robert Aylesham

academic administrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ7341667 ↗
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Robert Aylesham (died c. September 1379) was an English medieval university vice-chancellor and chancellor.

Aylesham was at Merton College, Oxford and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1377. He became Chancellor of the university in 1379. He died around September in the year he was appointed Chancellor.

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Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Aylesham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.