Vivian Stoke
Male circa 1150 - ?
Born, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
ndon. John Ward writes in his book about Stoke-upon-Trent: "Vivian of Stoke was one of the most considerable of the secular clergy, in the reigns of Henry II. and of John, and much favoured by the latter monarch, who, besides appointing him one of his Chaplains, endowed him with the vicarage of Wolstanton, including all the profits of that church, except six marks per annum reserved to the rector. He was also officiating minister (clericus effectus) of Trentham, as appears by the document just quoted.", on its escheat or forfeiture, and was probably the father (if the clergy of that age may be supposed to have had children, of Philippa, the wife of William de Erdinton, herself an object of King John's bounty."
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