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William Dudley (bishop)

William Dudley (bishop)

15th-century Bishop of Durham

William Dudley (died 1483) was Dean of Windsor and then Bishop of Durham.

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Born William Sutton, of Dudley, he was a younger son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.[1] He was made a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor and Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1471 and elevated to Dean of Windsor in 1473, a position which he held with that of Dean of Wolverhampton: thereafter the two posts were customarily held by the same man.

Dudley was nominated to Durham on 31 July 1476 and was consecrated between 1 September and 12 October 1476. In 1483 he supported Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the future King Richard III, in his bid for the Throne of England.[2] In the last months of his life he was Chancellor of Oxford University.[1] Dudley died on 29 November 1483.[3][4]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Loades p. 1
  2. [2]
    Ross p. 43
  3. [3]
    Fryde, et al. p. 242
  4. [4]
    Pollard, A. J. "Dudley, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8163. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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.
  • Loades, David (1996): John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-820193-1
  • Ross, Charles (1981): Richard III, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-05075-4
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