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William Whittlesey

William Whittlesey

14th-century Archbishop of Canterbury

For the U.S. Representative from Ohio, see William A. Whittlesey.

William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (died 5 June 1374) was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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Whittlesey was probably born in the Cambridgeshire village of Whittlesey, England.

Whittlesey was educated at Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch, Croydon and Cliffe.[1]

Whittlesey was briefly appointed Master of Peterhouse on 10 September 1349 and resigned from that post in 1351.[2] Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then dean of the court of arches by Islip.[1] On 23 October 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on 6 February 1362.[3] Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.[4] On 11 October 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to Simon Langham, but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health.[1] He died at Lambeth on the 5th or 6 June 1374.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Chisholm 1911.
  2. [2]
    Roach 1959.
  3. [3]
    Fryde et al. 1996, p. 267.
  4. [4]
    Fryde et al. 1996, p. 279.
  5. [5]
    Fryde et al. 1996, p. 233.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Whittlesea, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 615.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Roach, J. P. C., ed. (1959). "The colleges and halls: Peterhouse". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge. pp. 334–340.
  • Tait, James (1900). "Whittlesey, William" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • Swanson, R. N. "Wittleseye , William (d. 1374)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29333. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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