http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article This RSS feed is a screen scrape of the Wikipedia Featured Articles page en-us GNU Free Documentation License Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:05:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss wikipedia@jeays.net XML::RSS 1.45 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/February_4%2C_2012 <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barre">Richard Barre</a></strong> (''<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/circa">c.</a>'' 1130 – ''c.'' 1202) was a medieval English justice, clergyman, and scholar. He was educated at the law school of Bologna, and entered royal service under King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry&amp;nbsp;II_of_England">Henry&amp;nbsp;II of England</a>, later working for Henry's son and successor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England">Richard&amp;nbsp;I</a>. He was also briefly in the household of Henry's son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Young_King">Henry the Young King</a>. Barre served the elder Henry as a diplomat, and was involved in a minor way with the king's quarrel with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket">Thomas Becket</a>, which earned Barre a condemnation from Becket. After King Henry's death, Barre became a royal justice during Richard's reign, and was one of the main judges in the period from 1194 to 1199. During the reign of King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_England">John</a>, Barre was no longer employed as a judge owing to earlier disagreements with John. Barre was the author of a work of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible">biblical</a> extracts dedicated to one of his patrons, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longchamp">William Longchamp</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Ely">Bishop of Ely</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_England">Chancellor of England</a>. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barre"><strong>more...</strong></a>)<br /><br />Recently featured: ''<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness">Pathways into Darkness</a>'' – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chew_Stoke">Chew Stoke</a> – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_women's_national_football_team">Germany women's national football team</a><br /><br />