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- 1220-1225 (John de Fontibus was bishop of Ely 1220-1225.) (Creation)
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John de Fontibus (de Pherd) was Abbot of Fountains and then Bishop of Ely and Lord treasurer 1220-1225. He was reputed as a saint, but never received formal cult; he was commemorated on 19 June.
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John (de Fontibus), Bishop of Ely, grants to the nuns of St Radegund of Grenecroft the Church of St. Clement, Cambridge, with its appurtenances and rights, reserving an adequate vicarage to a priest to undertake the cure of souls. Saving to himself and his successors the episcopal and parochial rights. Witnesses: Laurence (de Stanesfield), Prior of Barnwell (1213-51), Master (Magister) Thomas de Watchelay, Bartholomew, official (of Ely), Master John De Foxton, Henry, parson de Hynton, Richard, parson of Suafham (Swaffam), John, parson of Fuleb(our)n et aliis Pluribus.
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Seal is attached (brown wax, fragmentary, reverse - figure of an ecclesiastical or saint, obverse - a bishop in a niche)