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After his death, an anecdote of Pope Innocent's death by Matthew Paris, is often referenced well into the 16th Century that the Ghost of Grosseteste visited him in the night and gave a blow to the Pope's heart, killing him.

Veneration
Upon his death, he was almost universally revered as a saint in England, with miracles reported at his shrine and pilgrims to it granted an indulgence by the bishop of Lincoln. However, attempts by successive Bishops of Lincoln, the University of Oxford, and Edward I to secure a formal papal canonization failed. The attempts to have his canonized were unsuccessful because of his opposition to Pope Innocent IV. The reason for this also seems to be because it was rumored that Grosseteste's ghost was responsible for the death of the Pope.

In most of the modern Anglican Communion, Robert Grosseteste is considered beatified and commemorated on 9 October. Grosseteste is honored in the Church of England and in the Episcopal Church on 9 October.

Reputation and legacy
Grosseteste was already an elderly man, with an established reputation, when he became a bishop. As an ecclesiastical statesman, he showed the same fiery zeal and versatility of which he had given proof in his academic career; but the general tendency of modern writers has been to exaggerate his political and ecclesiastical services, and to neglect his performance as a scientist and scholar. The opinion of his own age, as expressed by Matthew Paris and Roger Bacon, was very different. His contemporaries, while admitting the excellence of his intentions as a statesman, lay stress upon his defects of temper and discretion. But they see in him the pioneer of a literary and scientific movement; not merely a great ecclesiastic who patronized learning in his leisure hours, but the first mathematician and physicist of his age. He anticipated, in these fields of thought, some of the striking ideas to which Roger Bacon subsequently gave a wider currency.

The opinion of his own age, as expressed by Matthew Paris and Roger Bacon, was very different. His contemporaries, while admitting the excellence of his intentions as a statesman, lay stress upon his defects of temper and discretion. Grosseteste was known to equally critical towards everyone, and was known to often express his opinions regardless of status. Some of these conflicts involve the King, Abbot of Westminster and Pope Innocent. His morals were high and he recognized that even those of the church could be corrupt and worked to fight against that corruption.

Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln is named after Robert Grosseteste. The university provides Initial Teacher Training and academic degrees at all levels. In 2003, it hosted an international conference on Grosseteste in honor of the 750th anniversary of his death

Grosseteste has been recognized in many ways for his knowledge and contributions to the sciences. He was entered under the section "Scholars and Divines" in John Evelyn's Numismata: A discourse of Medals, entered under the name "Grosthed" listed among others that Evelyn describes as, "famous and illustrious". In 2014, The Robert Grosseteste Society has called for a statue to be erected so that he may be recognized for his achievements.

Human Dignity
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-An entry in The Tabula (De Dignitate Conditions Humanae) leads to information on the topic of human dignity

-Evidence that he heavily studied human dignity but never got around to actually putting his ideas in writing

-Humans have dignity because god has respect from what he created in his image

-He studied many texts to come to an understanding about human dignity ie The City of God, Moralia in Job

-no creature is has greater dignity than a human being