Robert Foliot (died 1186) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford in England. He was a relative of a number of English ecclesiastics, including Gilbert Foliot...
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Foliot may refer to: Foliot (timepiece), part of the verge escapement for early clocks A member of a fictional people in the high fantasy novel The Worm...
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Verge escapement (redirect from Verge-and-foliot escapement)
kept time by using the verge escapement to drive a foliot, a primitive type of balance wheel. The foliot was a horizontal bar with weights near its ends...
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to Robert Foliot, his predecessor at Hereford. He was a canon of Hereford Cathedral before becoming Archdeacon of Shropshire by May 1186. Foliot is a...
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Warleigh, Bickleigh (redirect from Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot)
(formerly Tamerton Foliot) in Devon, about 6 miles from Plymouth. Warleigh House, the manor house of the manor of Tamerton Foliot is situated one mile...
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Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of...
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Tamerton Foliot is a village and former civil parish situated in the north of Plymouth, in the Plymouth district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England...
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censure for not doing more to support Becket. In summer 1165, Robert accompanied Gilbert Foliot, the Bishop of London, on a papal mission to King Henry, to...
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son-in-law Robert Foliot (circa 1118–1172), to whom Henry II conceded the barony of Chipping Warden in the middle of the 12th century. As Robert had a wife...
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predecessors in the administration of the diocese and employed Gerald of Wales and Robert Grosseteste. As a canon at St. Osyth's, de Vere wrote a Latin life of that...
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