C. R. Cheney

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| sub_discipline = Medieval English ecclesiastical history

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Christopher Robert Cheney {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA}} (20 December 1906 – 19 June 1987) was an English medieval historian, noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the papacy with England, particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III.

Life

Cheney was born on 20 December 1906 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to parents George Gardner Cheney and Christina Stapleton Bateman.{{sfn|Brooke|1987|pp=425–426}}{{cite web |last=Pease |first=Charles E. G. |year=2015 |title=The Descendants of William Wilson |url=http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/WilsonWilliam.pdf |page=54 |access-date=18 November 2017}} He was educated at Banbury County School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1928.{{sfn|Chibnall|2004}}

He lectured at the University of Cairo, University College, London (1931–1933), and the University of Manchester (1933–1937) before returning to the Oxford in 1937 as reader in diplomatic and fellow of Magdalen College in 1937.{{sfn|Chibnall|2004}} He married Mary Hall on 24 August 1940.{{cite magazine |last1=Brett |first1=Martin |last2=Davies |first2=Karen |last3=Duggan |first3=Anne |year=2008 |title=Mary Gwendolen Cheney (1917–2007) |url=http://medieval.utoronto.ca/icmac/novellae/Novellae%202.pdf |magazine=Novellae: News of Medieval Canon Law |issue=2 |location=Munich |publisher=Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law |access-date=18 November 2017}}

After war service with MI5, he took the chair in medieval history at Manchester in 1945 until his election as the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge in 1955. He remained at Cambridge as a fellow of Corpus Christi College until his retirement in 1972.{{sfn|Chibnall|2004}}

Cheney was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1951 and appointed CBE in 1984.{{sfn|Brooke|1987|p=437}} He died in Cambridge on 19 June 1987.{{sfn|Chibnall|2004}}

Publications

{{cite book |title=Episcopal Visitation of Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century |location=Manchester |year=1931 |series=Publications of the University of Manchester, Historical Series |volume=58 }} [revised edition 1983]
{{cite book |title=English Synodalia of the Thirteenth Century |year=1941 }}
{{cite book |title=Handbook of Dates for Students of English History |location=London |publisher=Royal Historical Society |year=1945 |series=Royal Historical Society, Guides and Handbooks |volume=4 }} [and many later editions]
{{cite book |title=English Bishops' Chanceries, 1100–1250 |location=Manchester |year=1950 |series=University of Manchester Faculty of Arts Publications |volume=3 }}
with W. H. Semple (eds) {{cite book |title=Selected Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning England (1198–1216) |year=1953 |series=Medieval Texts series |location=London |publisher=Nelson }}
{{cite book |title=The Records of Medieval England: an inaugural lecture |location=Cambridge |year=1956 }}
{{cite book |title=From Becket to Langton: English church government, 1170–1213 |series=Ford Lectures, Hilary Term 1955 |location=Manchester |year=1956 }}
with F. M. Powicke (eds) {{cite book |title=Councils and Synods with other Documents Relating to the English Church, Vol. 2: pt. 1, 1205–1265; pt. 2, 1265–1313 |location=Oxford |year=1964 }}
{{cite book |title=Hubert Walter |location=London |publisher=Nelson |year=1967 }}
{{cite book |title=Notaries Public in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1972 }}
{{cite book |title=Pope Innocent III and England |location=Stuttgart |publisher=Anton Hiersmann |year=1976 |series=Päpste und Papsttum |volume=9 }}
{{cite book |title=The Papacy and England, 12th to 14th Centuries: historical and legal studies |location=London |publisher=Variorum Reprints |year=1982 |isbn=0860780996 }}
{{cite book |title=The English Church and its Laws, 12th–14th centuries |location=London |publisher=Variorum Reprints |year=1982 |isbn=0860781089 }}
with B. E. A. Jones (eds) {{cite book |title=English Episcopal Acta II: Canterbury 1162–1190 |location=Oxford |year=1986 |volume=2 }}
with Eric John (eds) {{cite book |title=English Episcopal Acta III: Canterbury 1193–1205 |location=Oxford |year=1986 |volume=3 }}

References

=Works cited=

{{cite journal |last=Brooke |first=C. N. L. |author-link=Christopher N. L. Brooke |year=1987 |title=Christopher Robert Cheney: 1906–1987 |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/73p425.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=73 |pages=425–446 |issn=0068-1202 }}
{{cite odnb |last=Chibnall |first=Marjorie |author-link=Marjorie Chibnall |year=2004 |title=Cheney, Christopher Robert (1906–1987) |id=39802 }}

{{s-ttl|title=Professor of Medieval History
at the University of Cambridge|years=1955–1972}}

{{s-ttl|title=President of the Lancashire Parish Register Society |years=1946–55}}

{{Professors of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge}}

Category:1906 births

Category:1987 deaths

Category:People from Banbury

Category:English medievalists

Category:Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford

Category:Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester

Category:Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford

Category:Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Category:Professors of Medieval History (Cambridge)