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The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342, Volume I

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The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342 Vol. 1

Edited by Dr. Nicholas Bennett, Vice Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral

Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers has coloured most subsequent accounts of his career; they give us a portrait of a man unqualified by age or ability to be a bishop, yet promoted to that office by the pope as a result of family influence and royal intervention; a man who nonetheless betrayed the monarch who had so conspicuously favoured him by lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and thereafter by plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh's episcopal register reveals a different character. The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester.

Contents

  • Contents, 1 page
  • Abbreviations, 3 pages
  • Introduction, 12 pages
  • Archdeaconry of Lincoln Institutions, 89 pages
  • Archdeaconry of Stow Institutions, 13 pages
  • Archdeaconry of Leicester Institutions, 45 pages
  • Index of Persons and Places, 66 pages
  • Index of Subjects, 7 pages

Language: English

ISBN: 0 901503 64 9


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