Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province). Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1963.
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'Bishops of Winchester', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province), (London, 1963) pp. 45-47. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol4/pp45-47 [accessed 23 April 2024]
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER
M. John de Pontissara D.C.L. 1282-1304.
Prov. 15 June 1282 (CPL. 1 466). Cons. 14 June by bps. of Ostia and Velletri (R.S.A.). Temps. 11 Aug. (CPR. 1281-1292 p. 33). Profession to Canterbury n.d. (Cant., Reg. A f. 254/222). Enthroned Sept. (Reg. Giffard 1 157). D. 4 Dec. 1304 (Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 5444 f. 135b).
Henry Woodlock de Merewell O.S.B. 1304-1316.
Lic el. gr. 23 Dec. 1304 (CPR. 1301-1307 p. 304). Royal assent notified to abp. 29 Jan. 1305 (ibid. p. 312). Assent of abp. 10 March (Reg. Woodlock 1 p. viii). Temps. 12 March (CPR. 1301-1307 p. 316). Cons. 29 Apr. at Canterbury (Cant., Reg. A f. 254/222), profession s.d. (ibid.). Cons. 30 May (Reg. Woodlock 1 21; Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 5444 f. 138b). Enthroned 10 Oct. (Reg. Woodlock 1 45). D. 29 June 1316 (Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 5444 f. 138b).
John de Sandale 1316-1319.
Lic. el. gr. 8 July 1316 (CPR. 1313-1317 p. 510). El. 26 July (Reg. Sandale p. 337). El. notified to k. with petition for conf. 27 July (P.R.O., C 84/18/43). Royal assent 5 Aug. (CPR. 1313-1317 p. 522). Assent of abp. 22 Sept. (Lamb., Reg. Reynolds f. 99b). Temps. 23 Sept. (CPR. 1313-1317 p. 549). Cons. at Canterbury 31 Oct. (Reg. Sandale p. 125). D. 2 Nov. 1319 (ibid. p. 261).
Henry de Burghashe 1319.]
[Adam de Wynton O.S.B. 1319.]
Rigaud de Asserio 1319-1323.
Burghashe nominated by k. 7 Nov. 1319 (Reg. Sandale p. 281). Letter to pope and cardinals about appointment 9 Nov. (ibid. pp. 282-4). Lic. el. gr. 24 Nov. (CPR. 1317-1321 p. 402). Wynton el., royal assent to el. notified to abp. 26 Dec. (ibid. p. 406). El. set aside because Asserio had been prov. 26 Nov. (Reg. Sandale pp. 562-3). Lic. alibi cons. 12 Dec. (ibid. p. 566). Temps. 17 Apr. 1320 (CPR. 1317-1321 p. 438). Cons. 16 Nov. at St Albans (Reg. Sandale p. 572). Profession to Canterbury 16 Jan. 1321 (Cant., Reg. A f. 254b/222b). D. 12 Apr. 1323 at Avignon (Brit. Mus., Cotton MS. Faustina A. viii f. 175).
[M. Robert de Baldock D.C.L. 1323.]
M. John de Stratford D.C.L. 1323-1333.
Baldock nominated by k. 9 May 1323 (CPL. 11 452). Stratford prov. 20 June (ibid.). Cons. at Rome 22 June (Brit. Mus., Cotton MS. Faustina A. viii f. 175). Temps. 28 June 1324 (CPR. 1321-1324 p. 432). Enthroned 25 Nov. (Reg. Stratford f. 8b). Profession to Canterbury 1 Dec. at Mortlake, Dec. at Canterbury (Cant., Reg. A f. 254b/222b). Abp. of Canterbury 1333.
M. Adam de Orleton D.Cn.L. 1333-1345.
Prov. 1 Dec. 1333, trans. from Worcester (Reg. Orleton 1 f. 1). K. unwilling to accept Orleton as bp., 23 March 1334 (Chartulary of Winchester Cathedral, ed. A. W. Goodman (1927) p. 108). Letter from pope to k. requesting him to restore temps. 21 May (ibid. pp. 108-10). Temps. 23 Sept. (CPR. 1334-1338 p. 21). Enthroned after 6 Apr. 1336 (Reg. Orleton 1 f. 39). D. 18 Apr. 1345 (ibid. 11 f. 107b).
[John Devenesche or de Veneys O.S.B. 1345.]
William de Edington 1345-1366.
Lic. el. gr. 22 July 1345 (CPR. 1343-1345 p. 526), received at Winchester 26 July (CCR. 1343-1346 p. 590). Devenesche el. 27 July (ibid.). Royal mand. 26 July withdrawing lic. (ibid.). Prior of Winchester summoned, 29 July, to answer for conduct of el., held in defiance of royal prohibn. Pardon gr. 5 Nov. to monks except Devenesche (CPR. 1343-1345 p. 569). Prov. of Edington at k's request 9 Dec. (CPL. 111 23). Temps. 15 Feb. 1346 (CPR. 1345-1348 p. 52). Cons. 14 May at Otford (Reg. Edington 1 f. 15). D. 7/8 Oct 1366 (Reg. Langham p. 244; Lambeth Palace MS. 20 f. 230b).
William de Wykeham 1366-1404.
Lic. el. sought 10 Oct. 1366 (P.R.O., C 84/29/36). Gr. 13 Oct. (CPR. 1364-1367 p. 311). Royal assent 24 Oct. (ibid. p. 324). Custody of temps. gr. 1 Dec. (ibid. p. 353). Made administrator of bpc. 11 Dec. (Reg. Langham pp. 242-3). Spir. 22 Feb. 1367 (ibid. p. 244). Custody of temps. re-gr. 8 March (ibid). Papal assent 14 July (Reg. Wykeham 18). Bpc. had been reserved to pope during lifetime of Edington, Wykeham was royal candidate (Jour. Eccles. Hist. iv 37-55). Lic. alibi cons. 13 July (CPL. iv 60). Cons. 10 Oct. at St Paul's London (Reg. Langham p. 264). Plenary restitution of temps. 12 Oct. (CPR. 1367-1370 p. 15). Profession to Canterbury 14 Oct. at Southwark (Reg. Wykeham 1 10). Enthroned 9 July 1368 (ibid. 11 1-4). D. 27 Sept. 1404 (En. Reg. 1 f. 20).
[M. Thomas Neville O.S.B., D.Th. 1404.]
M. Henry Beaufort Sch.Th. 1404-1447.
Lic. el. gr. 3 Oct. 1404 (En. Reg. 1 f. 19b). Neville el. 16 Oct. (ibid). El. notified to k. and pope s.d. (ibid. ff. 20-21b, 22). El. set aside by trans. of Beaufort from Lincoln 19 Nov. (Reg. Beaufort f. 1). Temps. 14 March 1405 (CPR. 1405-1408 p. 1). Profession to Canterbury 18 March, spir. s.d. (Lamb., Reg. Arundell 1 ff. 28b-29). D. 11 Apr. 1447 (Lambeth Palace MS. 20 f. 179b).
M. William Waynflete B.Th. 1447-1486.
Lic. el. sought 12 Apr. 1447 (En. Reg. 1 f. 73b). Letter from k. to prior 11 Apr. 'For to chowse William Waynflete as bishop' (ibid.). Custody of temps. gr. s.d. (CPR. 1446-1452 p. 53). Lic. el. gr. 15 Apr. (ibid. p. 44). El. of Waynflete notified to pope and k. 17 Apr. (En. Reg. 1 ff. 74-75). Prov. 10 May (Lamb., Reg. Stafford f. 27). Plenary restitution of temps. 4 June (CPR. 1446-1452 p. 55). Profession to Canterbury 16 June (Lamb., Reg. Stafford f. 27b). Cons. 30 June at Eton College (Eton College, Lease Book Reg. 1444-1529 f. 2). Enthroned 19 Jan. 1448 (Emden, Reg. Ox. 111 2002). D. 11 Aug. 1486 (Eubel 11 269).
M. Peter Courtenay D.Cn.L. 1487-1492.
Lic. el. gr. 30 Nov. 1486 (CPR. 1485-1494 p. 142). Trans. of Courtenay from Exeter 29 Jan. 1487 (Lamb., Reg. Morton 1 f. 18b). Custody of temps. gr. 8 Feb. (CPR. 1485-1494 p. 167). Plenary restitution 2 Apr. (ibid. p. 168). D. 22 Sept. 1492 (Lamb., Reg. Morton 1 f. 84b).
M. Thomas Langton D.Th., D.Cn.L. 1493-1501.
Trans. from Salisbury 13 March 1493 (Reg. Langton f. 1). Custody of temps. had been gr. 12 Jan. and 16 Feb. (CPR. 1485-1494 pp. 412, 427). Plenary restitution 27 June (ibid. p. 432). Trans. to Canterbury 22 Jan. 1501.
M. Richard Fox D.Cn.L. 1501-1528.
Trans. from Durham 20 Aug. 1501 (Eubel 11 269). Temps. 17 Oct. (CPR. 14941509 p. 238). D. 14 Sept./5 Oct. 1528 (Lambeth Palace MS. 20 f. 218; Eubel 11 717).
M. Thomas Wolsey D.Th. Card. pr. of S. Caecilia. 1529-1530.
Papal lic. to hold bpc. in commendam, 8 Feb. 1529 (P.R.O., Papal Bulls 63 (25)). Temps. 6 Apr. (L. & P. iv iii No. 5432). Enthroned 11 Apr. (Reg. Wolsey pp. 1-6). Surrendered bpc. 17 Feb. 1530 (ibid. pp. 184-5).
M. Stephen Gardiner D.Cn. & C.L. 1531-1551.
Prov. 20 Oct. 1531 (L. & P. v No. 627 (8)). Lic. alibi cons. 27 Nov. (Cant., Reg. T f. 365). Cons. 3 Dec. (Reg. Gardiner p. 1). Temps. 5 Dec. (L. & P. v No. 627 (8)). Enthroned 27 Dec. (Reg. Gardiner p. 1). Depriv. 14 Feb. 1551 (Acts of the Privy Council, 1550-1552 p. 213).