Roger bacon birth and death

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Roger Bacon's parents were well-off landowners.

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His father, however, must have had a high regard for education since two of his sons became academics and he was prepared to support them financially. Before giving the few details of his early years that are known, we should say a little about the date of birth we have given for Roger.

All that is known is that in 1267 Bacon wrote the following:-

I have laboured diligently in sciences and languages, and forty years have passed since I first learned the alphabet. I have always been studious and for all but two of these forty years I have been in study.

The date of 1214 is arrived at by assuming that the passage means that forty years have passed since he began his university studies.

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These began at the age of thirteen, so 53 from 1267 gives the date of 1214 as the year of his birth. There is, however, another interpretation. This is to accept as a literal fact that he first learned the alphabet in 1227. If so then perhap