Addenda: Bishops of London | British History Online

Pages 899-900

A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark. Originally published by R Baldwin, London, 1773.

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A List of the BISHOPS of LONDON.



604	MELLITUS.
658	Cedda, the first Saxon bishop.
666	Wina.
680	Earkenwald.
685	Waldherus.
716	Ingwaldus.
747	Ecgwulfus.
754	Wighedus.
761	Eadbrightus.
768	Eadgarus.
773	Kenwalchus.
784	Eadbaldus.
795	Heathobertus.
802	Osmundus.
816	Ethelnothus.
830	Coelbertus.
848	Deorwulf.
851	Swithulfus.
860	Heathstanus.
870	Wulffius.
905	Ethelwardus.
922	Healstanus.
941	Theodredus.
944	Wulfstanus.
951	Brithlemus.
958	Dunstan; abbot of Glastonbury, then bishop of Worcester, and translated from London to Canterbury.
959	Elfstanus.
981	Edgarus.
996	Wulfstanus.
1004	Alfhunus, tutor to the sons of Ethelred.
1016	Alwy.
1034	Elfward, the last Saxon bishop.
1044	Robert, the first Norman bishop; afterward translated to Can[terbury.
1051	William.
1075	Hugh de Orivalle.
1085	Maurice.
1108	Richard de Belmeis.
1128	Gilbert Universalis; canon of Lyons.
1141	Robert de Sigillo; monk of Reading.
1150	Richard de Belmeis; archdeacon of Middlesex, and nephewof the former of that name.
1158	Richard Fitz Neal; dean of Lincoln, and lord high treasurer of England.
1163	Gilbert Foliot; translated from Hereford.
1189	Richard Nigellus, lord treasurer.
1199	William de Sancta Maria; dean of St. Martin's-le-Grand.
1221	Eustace de Fauconberg, prebend of Holborn, and lord high treasurer.
1229	Roger Niger, archdeacon of Colchester.
1241	Fulk Basset, dean of York.
1259	Henry de Wingham, prebend of Newington, and lord high treas.
1262	Richard Talbot, dean of St. Paul's; who died before his consecration.
1262	Henry de Sandwich, prebend of Wildland.
1273	John de Chishul, dean of St. Paul's, and lord high treasurer.
1280	Fulk Lovel, archdeacon of Colchester, who refused acceptance.
1280	Richard de Gravesend, archdeacon of Northampton.
1304	Ralph de Baldock, dean of St. Paul's, lord high chancellor.
1313	Gilbert de Seagrave, canon of Lincoln.
1317	Richard de Newport, dean of St. Paul's.
1318	Stephen Gravesend, prebendary of Wenlakesbarn, and Chamberlain wood.
1338	Richard de Wentworth, prebendary of Kentish town, and lord high chancellor.
1340	Ralph de Stratford, canon of St. Paul's.
1354	Michael de Northburg, prebendary of Mapesburg.
1361	Simon Tibald de Sudbury, domestic chaplain to pope Innocent VI. and chancellor of Sarum: murdered by Wat Tyler in the Tower.
1375	William de Courtney, translated from Hereford, and afterward to Canterbury.
1381	Robert de Braybroke, canon of Litchfield.
1405	Roger de Waldron, who had been archbishop of Canterbury, and lord high treasurer, but was deposed, and died soon after this appointment.
1406	Nicholas de Bubbewith, lord high treasurer; translated afterward to Salisbury, &c.
1407	Richard Clifford, translated from Worcester.
1421	John Kemp, translated from Chichester; and afterward to York.
1426	William Gray, dean of York, translated afterward to Lincoln.
1431	Robert Fitz Hugh, archdeacon of Northampton.
1436	Robert Gilbert, dean of York.
1448	Thomas Kemp, archdeac. of Middlesex, and chancellor of York.
1489	Richard Hill, dean of the king's chapel.
1496	Thomas Savage, translated from Rochester, and afterward to York.
1501	William Warham, keeper of the great seal; translated to Canterbury.
1504	William Barons.
1506	Richard Fitz James, translated from Chichester.
1522	Cuthbert Tonstal; translated afterward to Durham.
1530	John Stokesley, prebendary of St. Stephen's chapel Westminster.
1539	Edmund Bonner, translated from Hereford,—deprived.
1550	Nicholas Ridley, translated from Rochester,—deprived and burned.
1553	Edmund Bonner, restored; but again deprived.
1556	Edmund Grindal; translated to York.
1570	Edwyn Sandys, vice chancellor of Cambridge; translated afterward to York.
1576	John Aelmer, archdeacon of Lincoln.
1594	Richard Fletcher, dean of Peterborough.
1597	Richard Bancroft, prebendary of Westminster, translated afterward to Canterbury.
1604	Richard Vaughan, translated from Chester.
1607	Thomas Ravis, translated from Gloucester.
1609	George Abbot, translated from Litchfield and Coventry, and afterward to Canterbury.
1611	John King, dean of Christ-church, Oxford.
1621	George Monteine, translated from Lincoln, and afterward to Durham.
1628	William Laud, translated afterward to Canterbury.
1633	William Juxon, translated from Hereford, was deprived by the parliament in 1641, but being reinstared at the restoration of Charles II. was soon afterward removed to Canterbury.
1660	Gilbert Sheldon, chaplain and dean of the closet to the king, afterward removed to Canterbury.
1663	Humphry Henchman, translated from Salisbury.
1675	Henry Compton, translated from Oxford.
1713	John Robinson, translated from Bristol.
1723	Edmund Gibson, translated from Lincoln.
1748	Thomas Sherlock, translated from Salisbury.
1761	Thomas Hayter, translated from Norwich.
1762	Richard Osbaldiston, translated from Carlisle.
1764	Richard Terrick, translated from Peterborough.