Robert Birkenshaw

Robert Birkenshaw (also Bekensall and Bekensaw) D.D. (d. 1526) was a Canon of Windsor from 1512 to 1525

Career

He was appointed:

• President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1508 - 1519
• Rector of Revesby, Lincolnshire until 1505
• Vicar of Croxton 1505
• Rector of St Michael the Archangel's Church, Chagford, Devon 1510
• Rector of Bradwell-super-Mare, Essex 1512
• Treasurer of Lincoln 1513
• Chaplain and Almoner to Catherine of Aragon
• Dean of Stoke-by-Clare 1517
• Prebendary of Lincoln 1523

He was appointed to the first stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1512, and held the stall until 1525.

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