Appendices: List of Bishops of London from the Conquest

Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis. Originally published by Nichols and Sons, London, 1873.

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'Appendices: List of Bishops of London from the Conquest', in Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londiniensis. Edited by W Sparrow Simpson( London, 1873), British History Online, accessed October 10, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/st-pauls-register/pp466-468.

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II. BISHOPS OF LONDON FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST. (fn. 1)

Consecration. Accession. Translation. Death.
William (living in 1075) 1051
Hugh de Orivalle 1075 1084–5
Maurice 1086–7 1107
Richard de Belmeis I. (or de Beaumes) 1108 1127–8
Gilbert Universalis 1127–8 1134
Robert de Sigillo (fn. 2) 1141 1151
Richard de Belmeis II. 1152 1162
Gilbert Foliot. 1162–3 1187–8
Richard de Ely (Fitz Neale) 1189 1198
William of S. Mary's Church (resig. 1221) 1199
Eustace de Fauconberge 1221 1228
Roger Niger (or le Noir) 1229 1241
Fulk Bassett 1244 1259
Henry de Wingham 1259–60 1262
Henry of Sandwich (fn. 3) 1263 1273
John de Chishul 1274 1279–80
Richard de Gravesend (fn. 4) 1280 1303
Ralph de Baldock (or Baudake) 1305–6 1313
Gilbert de Segrave 1313 1316
Richard de Newport 1317 1318
Stephen de Gravesend 1318–9 1338
Richard de Bynteworth (or Bentworth) 1338 1339
Ralph de Stratford 1339–40 1354
Michael de Northburgh (or Northbrook) 1354 1361
Simon de Sudbury 1361–2 1375
William Courtenay 1375 1381
Robert de Braybroke 1381–2 1404
Roger Walden 1405 1405–6
Nicholas de Bubbewyth 1406 1406
Richard Clifford 1407 1421
John Kempe 1422 1426
William Grey 1426 1431
Robert Fitz Hugh 1431 1435–6
Robert Gilbert 1436 1448
Thomas Kempe 1449–50 1489
Richard Hill 1489 1495–6
Thomas Savage 1496 1501
William Warham 1502 1503
William Barons (or Barnes) 1504 1505
Richard FitzJames 1506 1521–2
Cuthbert Tunstall 1522 1530
John Stokesley 1530 1539
Edmund Bonner (fn. 5) 1540 1569
Nicholas Ridley 1550 1555
Edmund Grindal 1559 1570
Edwin Sandys (or Sandes) 1570 1576–7
John Aylmer 1576–7 1594
Richard Fletcher 1594 1596
Richard Bancroft 1597 1604
Richard Vaughan 1604 1607
Thomas Ravis 1607 1609
George Abbot 1609–10 1611
John King 1611 1621
George Meateigne 1621 1627
William Laud 1628 1633
William Juxon 1633 1660
Gilbert Sheldon 1660 1663
Humphrey Henchman 1663 1675
Henry Compton 1675 1713
John Robinson 1714 1723
Edmund Gibson 1723 1748
Thomas Sherlock 1748 1761
Thomas Hayter 1761 1762
Richard Osbaldeston 1762 1764
Richard Terrick 1764 1777
Robert Lowth 1777 1787
Beilby Porteus 1787 1809
John Randolph 1809 1813
William Howley 1813 1828 1848
Charles James Blomfield 1828 1857
Archibald Campbell Tait 1856 1868
John Jackson 1869

Footnotes

  • 1. This list is constructed from the materials supplied in Le Neve's Fasti (edit. T. Duffus Hardy). The date inserted in the column headed Consecration is the date of consecration to the See of London: where the date of Accession only is given, the person promoted was translated from some other Bishopric.
  • 2. Anselm, Abbot of Bury, was elected and enthroned in S. Paul's in 1137, but was never consecrated: the see remained vacant seven years; his election was annulled by the Court of Rome.
  • 3. Richard Talbot, Dean of S. Paul's, was elected Bishop 1262, but died before he received consecration.
  • 4. Fulk Lovel was elected Bishop, but declined consecration, 1280.
  • 5. Edmund Bonner was deprived 1 Oct. 1549; restored 5 Sept. 1553; again displaced 30 May 1559.