CANTILUPE, WALTER DE (d. 1265), bishop of Wor cester, came of a family which had risen by devoted service to the crown. His father and his elder brother are named by Roger Wendover among the "evil counsellors" of John, apparently for no better reason than that they were consistently loyal to an un popular master. Walter took minor orders, and, in 1236, al though not yet a deacon, received the see of Worcester. As bishop, he identified himself with the party of ecclesiastical re form, which was then led by Edmund Rich and Robert Grosse teste. At first a court favourite, the bishop came at length to the belief that the evils of the time arose from the alliance of crown and papacy. He raised his voice against papal demands for money, and after the death of Grosseteste (12 53) was the chief spokes man of the nationalist clergy. At the parliament of Oxford (1258) he was elected by the popular party as a representative on the committee of 24 which undertook to reform the administration. In the war he sided with Montfort and, through his nephew Thomas, who was then chancellor of Oxford, brought over the university to the popular side. He was present at Lewes and blessed the Montfortians before they joined battle with the army of the king; he entertained Simon de Montfort on the night be fore the final rout of Evesham. During Simon's dictatorship, the bishop appeared only as a mediating influence ; in the triumvirate of "Electors" who controlled the administration, the clergy were represented by the bishop of Chichester. Walter de Cantilupe died in the year after Evesham (1266).