Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cantelupe, Roger de
CANTELUPE, ROGER de (fl. 1248), legist, was the son of Roger de Cantelupe, who was hanged for treason in 1225. He was sent by Henry III in 1231 to Rome, against Archbishop Richard. His false accusation against the bishops in the quarrel between the king and the earl marshal in 1234 is especially mentioned by Matthew Paris. It was fully answered by the bishop of Lichfield, Alexander Stavenby. It is probably the same person who held the prebend of Kentillers, or Kentish Town, in St. Paul's, London, in 1248. There is a letter from Innocent IV to him in 1248, directing him to protect the abbey of St. Albans from any further contributions to the Roman church.
[Dunstable Annals (Annal. Monast. iii.), 95; Matt. Paris (Rolls Ser.), iii. 268, vi. 151.]