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==Early life and career== His father was Henry Langton, a landowner in [[Langton by Wragby]], [[Lincolnshire]]. Stephen Langton may have been born in a moated farmhouse in the village,<ref name =DNB>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16044?docPos=1 Christopher Holdsworth, ''Stephen Langton'', Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004]</ref> and was probably educated in his local cathedral school. He could also have been born at [[Friday Street]], Surrey, according to local legend.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephan Langton Inn, Friday Street. |url=https://whatpub.com/pubs/REI/178/stephan-langton-inn-friday-street |website=What Pub |access-date=21 August 2018}}</ref> Stephen studied at the [[University of Paris]] and lectured there on [[theology]] until 1206, when [[Pope Innocent III]], with whom he had formed a friendship in Paris, called him to Rome and made him [[cardinal-priest]] of [[San Crisogono, Rome]].<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1205.htm#Langton Stephen Cardinal Langton]. ''The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church''. Retrieved 22 November 2008.</ref><ref name=BHOCant>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33853 British History Online Archbishops of Canterbury]. Retrieved 11 September 2007.</ref> His piety and learning had already won him [[Prebendary|prebends]] in Paris and [[York Minster|York]]<ref name=BHOMisc>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=11328&strquery=langton#s79 British History Online Canons whose Prebends cannot be identified]. Retrieved 11 September 2007.</ref> and he was recognised as the foremost English churchman. His brother [[Simon Langton (priest)|Simon Langton]]<ref name=BHOArchDCant>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33855 British History Online Archdeacons of Canterbury]. Retrieved 14 September 2007.</ref> was elected [[Archbishop of York]] in 1215, but that election was quashed by Pope Innocent III.<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16043 Fred A. Cazel Jnr, ''Simon Langton'', Oxford Online National Dictionary of Biography, 2004]</ref> Simon served his brother Stephen as Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1227.<ref name=BHOArchDCant/> Simon and Stephen had another brother named Walter, a knight who died childless.
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