of Logic, and for
this purpose he presently went to Paris, returning, however, to Oxford
to take his degree. Thence once more he set out, this time to study
Canon Law at Bologna, where he not only won a great reputation, but was
appointed a public professor of that faculty. So beloved and respected
was he in that great university, where there was always a considerable
English contingent, that his tutor offered him his daughter in
marriage, and gladly would he have taken her, but that marriage was not
for him. So he set out for England and Oxford, where he was joyfully
received and indeed such was his fame that he was made chancellor of
the university. In truth, he was in such great demand that both
Canterbury and Lincoln wished to secure him, and at last Archbishop
Edmund Rich succeeded where Robert Grosseteste failed, and Richard
became chancellor of Canterbury and the dear friend of the Archbishop.
They were indeed two saints together, and even in their lifetime were
greeted as "two cherubim in glory." Together they faced the king, when
he continued to allow so many English bishoprics to remain vacant, and
together they went into exile to Pontigny, and later to Soissy, where
St Edmund died. Heart-broken by the loss of so dear a friend Richard
retired into a Dominican house in Orleans and immersed himself in the
study of Theology. There he was ordained priest, and there he founded a
chapel in honour of St Edmund. But Boniface of Savoy, who had succeeded
St Edmund in the archbishopric of Canterbury, besought him to return.
He obeyed, and was appointed rector of Charing and vicar of Deal in
1243, becoming once more Chancellor of Canterbury. But still there
remained the enmity of the King. Two good things Henry III. gave us,
Westminster Abbey and Edward I.; but he was almost as difficult as
Henry II., with regard to investitures. Fortunately he was not so
obstinate, or we might have had a martyr instead of a confessor in
Chichester, as we have in Canterbury.

In the year 1244 the See of Chichester fell vacant by the death of
Bishop Ralph Neville, and at the King's suggestion the canons elected
their archdeacon, a keen supporter of his. Boniface at once held a
synod, quashed the election, and recommended his chancellor Richard as
Bishop, to which the chapter agreed. The king was, of course, furious.
Richard, who was received by him, could do nothing with him, and so
immediately appealed to the Pope, Innocent IV., it was, w