Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Ralph of Maidstone
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Ralph of Maidstone,
BISHOP OF HEREFORD, 1234,
Was so called, according to Fuller, from the place of his birth. Thomas Wike describes him as "Vir magnae literaturge et in Theologia nominatissimus." He purchased a house on Old Fish-street hill of the Monthalts of Norfolk, which became the inn or lodging of the Bishops of Hereford. He resigned his bishopric in 1239, and became a Franciscan, first at Oxford, then at Gloucester, where he died about the year 1244.