Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham

Also known as: Anthony Bek / Antonie Beake bishop of Durham / Antonie Beke bishop of Durham / sir Antonie de Beke · Family: England · Role: bishop of Durham · First appears: Richard II 47

Life events

• 1305 · Edward I seized the manors disputed by John Hastings, Anthony Bek, John Balliol, and Robert Bruce.(Richard II 47)
  • With: John Hastings John Balliol Robert Bruce Edward I
  • “But after his returne the sute being reuiued and continued, it went once more without daie, bicause the king seized the same into his hands, and held it all the time of his reigne”

Richard II 47

• rivals with John Hastings “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”
• rivals with John Balliol “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”
• rivals with Robert Bruce “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”

Richard II 48

• with John Balliol (John Balliol gave lands to Anthony Bek.) “by reason of certeine lands that he gaue to sir Antonie de Beke the bishop of Durham”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.