Stephen Langton

Stephen Langton has been mentioned before, ordering English Jews to wear a white band, helping Barons draft what would become the Magna Carta, being asked by Pope Honorius to give a religious position to alchemist Michael Scot, and helping Hubert de Burgh manage the kingdom of England for the child Henry III.He was born c.1150, the son of a lord of a manor in Lincolnshire. He studied at the University of Paris, staying there for 25 years and becoming known as a great lecturer and theologian. Pope Innocent III summoned him to Rome and made him cardinal-priest (below a cardinal-bishop but higher than a cardinal-deacon) of St. Chrysogonus in Rome.When Archbishop of Canterbury Hubert Walter died in 1205, there was disagreement over his successor. Two different groups of canons of the cathedral chapter elected different men, but Innocent refused to consecrate either and ordered a new election. Sixteen canons had traveled to Rome to plead their case, and they were given the chance to make a…

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