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Henry Webber (Dean Of Exeter)
Henry Webber was Dean of Exeter The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral ... between 1459 and 1477.Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24. Notes Deans of Exeter {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Exeter
The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral, allowing the chapter to elect those officers. The deanery is at 10 The Close, Exeter. The current dean is Jonathan Greener. List of deans High Medieval *1225–1231 Serlo *1231–1252 Roger de Wynkleigh *1252–1268 William de Stanwey *1268–1274 Roger de Toriz *1274–1280 John Noble *1280–1283 John Pycot *1283–1302 Andrew de Kilkenny Late Medieval *1302–1307 Henry de Somerset *1307–1309 Thomas de Lechlade *1311–1326 Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio *1328–1335 Richard de Coleton *1335–1353 Richard de Braylegh *1353–1363 Reginald de Bugwell *1363–1378 Robert Sumpter *1378–1385 Thomas Walkyngton *1385–1415 Ralph Tregrision *1415–1419 Stephen Payn *1419–1457 John Cobethorn *1457–1459 John Hals *1459 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hals
John Hales (c. 1400-1490) (''alias'' Hals, Halse, etc.) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1459-1490). He was one of the ''Worthies of Devon'' of the biographer John Prince (d.1723). Origins Hales was the second son of John Hals (fl.1423) of Kenedon in the parish of Sherford, Devon (a Justice of the Common Pleas and in 1423 a Justice of the King's Bench) by his first wife, a daughter of the Mewye (''alias'' Mewy) family of Whitchurch near Tavistock, Devon. His great-uncle was Richard Hals (d.1418), a Canon of Exeter Cathedral in Devon, and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral in 1400, who in 1414 was sent as Ambassador to Brittany. Bishop Hals appointed his kinsman Edmund Hals as Archdeacon of Salop from an unknown date until 1485 and as Archdeacon of Derby from 1485, probably until his death. The mansion house of the Hals' at Kenedon, originally quadrangular in form, is today represented by a small 16th c. farmhouse known as ''Keynedon'', about 1 mile south of the village of Sher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Woodville
Lionel Woodville (1447 – 23 June 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury in England. Life Woodville was a fourth son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483. In the late 1470s, Woodville became the first person in recorded history to receive an honorary degree (Doctor of Canon Law, DCL), from the University of Oxford. He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1479 to 1483. After a number of more minor clerical positions, Woodville was elected Exeter Cathedral, Dean of Exeter in November 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury.Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/887, in 1484, first defendant, surname as 'Wydevill', in the top entry, in a case of debt; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no887/bCP40no887dorses/IMG_1041.htm ; He was nominated to Salisbury on 7 January 1482 and consecrated on 21 April 1482.Fryde, et al. ''Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
