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William Ayscough

William Ayscough

15th-century Bishop of Salisbury

William Ayscough or Aiscough (c. 1395 – 29 June 1450) was a medieval English cleric who served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1438 until his death.[1]

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Ayscough was nominated on 11 February 1438 and consecrated on 20 July 1438.[2] He was a royal confessor and a regular member of the royal council.[3]

Ayscough was killed at Edington, Wiltshire, on 29 June 1450 by an angry mob during Jack Cade's Rebellion. He officiated at the marriage of Henry VI and his wife, Margaret of Anjou, at Titchfield Abbey in 1445.[1]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Kekewich, Margaret L. (2004). "Aiscough [Ayscough], William (c. 1395–1450)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/954. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. [2]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 271
  3. [3]
    Wilson, Derek. (1973). A Tudor tapestry : men, women and society in Reformation England. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-8229-3242-3.

References

  • 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.
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