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Robert Honiwood

English priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ17309151 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Honiwood LL.D. (died 22 January 1523) was a Canon of Windsor from 1504 to 1523

Career

He was appointed:

Archdeacon of Norwich 1497

Chancellor of Norwich 1499

Archdeacon of Taunton 1509

Prebendary of Lichfield 1512

He was appointed to the second stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1504, and held the stall until 1523.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Honiwood” 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.