The date and authorship of Robert Grosseteste's Rules for Household and Estate Management

Grosseteste's Rules is canonically dated 1240-2 arguing thus: the countess of Lincoln, for whom the work was written, was a widow since only widows needed a manual concerning matters not pertinent to married noble women. The one widowed countess of Lincoln during Grosseteste's episcopate (1235-53) was widowed in 1240 and remarried in 1242. Given, however, the activities of married noblewomen, and the appearance of other unmarried countesses of Lincoln during Grosseteste's pontificate, the treatise is datable only to 1235-53. Pace& Dr. Dorothea Oschinsky, Grosseteste also had the capacity to write the Rules, and so presumably wrote it

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