Archdeacons: Winchester

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 2, Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces). Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1971.

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'Archdeacons: Winchester', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 2, Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces), (London, 1971) pp. 92-93. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol2/pp92-93 [accessed 26 April 2024]

ARCHDEACONS OF WINCHESTER

Ralph (fn. 1)

First occ. [1143 × 54] (L. Voss, Heinrich von Blois Bischof von Winchester (Berlin, 1932) p. 159). Last occ. 27 March 1178 (Records of Merton Priory, ed. A. Heales (1898) app. p. xvii) and prob. Sept. 1179 (Pipe Roll 25 Hen. II (Pipe Roll Soc. xxviii) p. 103). D. before Sept. 1180 (Pipe Roll 26 Hen. II (Pipe Roll Soc. xxix) p. 132). Occ., with territorial title, together with Ralph, archdcn. [of Surrey] (Cart. Winch. no. 459), and together with Robert de Inglesham, archdcn. of Surrey (ibid. nos. 14, 453(1); H. E. Salter, Facsimiles of Early Oxford Charters (Oxford, 1929) no. 18).

Roger I

First certain occ. before 1181 (Cart. Winch. no. 34). (fn. 2) Last occ. [Jan. × Sept. 1205] (cart. of Carisbrooke: B.M., Egerton MS. 3667 fos. 70r-v, 70v-71v). (fn. 3) D. 1207/8 (Ann. Wint. in U.G.Q. p. 184).

M. Bartholomew

First occ. 28 May 1213 (Rot. Litt. Pat. p. 99b). Last occ. June 1229 (C.R.R. xiii 466). Also preb. of London; can. of Exeter and Salisbury. D. 12 Dec. 1230 (Exeter obit.: Exeter D. & C., MS. 3518 fo. 58r). Nephew of Peter des Roches, bp. of Winchester (1205-38) (Rot. Litt. Pat. p. 113b).

Roger II

D., a pilgrim, 1231/2 (Ann. Wint. p. 85). Not otherwise known, unless to be identified with unnamed archdcn. of Winchester who had disp. for plurality 6 May 1231 (Reg. Greg. IX no. 639).

P-

Occ. once only, 4 Nov. 1236 (C.P.R. 1232-47 p. 166).

Hugh des Roches

First occ. Feb. 1237 (Cal. of Selborne Charters, ed. W. D. Macray (Hants Record Soc., 1891-4) 1 21). D. 1253/4 (Ann. Wint. p. 94; Ann. Worc. p. 442).

P-

Occ. twice only: 27 June 1254 (Reg. Pontissara 1 2-3) and 22 Nov. 1256 (Cal. of Selborne Charters, ed. W. D. Macray (Hants Record Soc., 1891-4) 1 76-7).

An unnamed archdcn. occ. 24 Oct. 1258 (Close R. 1256-59 pp. 330-1) and 28 May, 31 May and 1 June 1260 (C.P.R. 1258-66 pp. 73, 74, 75).

Amaury Guiscard

Occ. at Winchester, without title, as witness to a charter of Andrew of London, prior of Winchester, 1 Jan. 1257 (C.Ch.R. 11 9). Occ. as archdcn. once only, 8 Jan. 1261 (C.P.R. 1258-66 p. 135).

M. Henry de Helingeye (fn. 4)

Presum. not appd. until after 31 Oct. 1263, when occ. without title (C.Ch.R. 11 50). Occ. as archdcn. 6 March 1274 (C.P.R. 1272-81 p. 45). Presum. to be identified with H- archdcn. of Winchester who occ. 13 Jan. 1275 (Cal. of Selborne Charters, ed. W. D. Macray (Hants Record Soc., 1891-4) 1 65).

An unnamed archdcn. occ. 27 Dec. 1276 (Reg. Pontissara 11 615-17).

M. Richard de la More

First occ. 11 Sept. 1280 (Reg. J. Pecham 11 113-14). Also subdean of Lincoln. Bp.-el. of Winchester Nov. 1280-June 1282 (above p. 87). Last certain occ. as archdcn. 19 June 1283 (Les Registres de Martin IV, ed. F. Olivier-Martin (Bibl. des capécoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 2nd ser. xvi) no. 353), but still living, subdean of Lincoln, 3 May 1285 (Reg. Antiquissimum of Lincoln, 111 ed. C. W. Foster (Lincoln Record Soc. xxix) no. 842). Commem. 16 June (Exeter obit.: B.M., Harley MS. 863 fo. 3v).

M. Philip of St. Austell (fn. 5) alias Cornwaleys

Presum. not appd. until after 25 Apr. 1285, when still called abp.'s clk. (C.P.R. 1281-92 p. 157; cf. I. J. Churchill, Canterbury Administration (1933) 11 260). First occ. 28 Oct. 1285 (Reg. Pontissara 11 456-7). Last occ. 23 March 1303 (C.P.R. 1301-7 p. 127). D. shortly before 10 June 1304 (Reg. Pontissara 1 167-8).

Footnotes

  • 1. He was son of Peter Mercennar' (cart. of North Baddesley: B.M., Portland Loan 29/57 no. 2) and had a brother Andrew (Pipe Roll 2 Ric. I (Pipe Roll Soc., new ser. i) p. 133).
  • 2. He is said to occ. [May 1173 × Oct. 1174] (C.R.R. 111 119, temp. Richard of Ilchester, bp.-el. of Winchester (above p. 85)), and [c. 1175] (Cart. Winch. no. 72), but presum. there are errors here, either in his title or in the dating.
  • 3. During vacancy in see.
  • 4. ?Hilgay, Norf.
  • 5. Cornwall.