Edmund Oldhall (after 1390 –

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) was an English-born cleric and judge in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was

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and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a brother of the leading

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statesman

Sir William Oldhall Sir William Oldhall (1390?–1460) was an English soldier and Yorkist supporter, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons of England between 1450 and 1451. Life The eldest son and heir of two-time Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Sir Edm ...

. He was the younger son of Sir Edmund Oldhall and Alice, daughter of Geoffrey de Fransham. The Oldhalls were substantial landowners in

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, holding the manors of East Dereham, Bodney and

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Edmund entered the Carmelite order and purchased the office of Bishop of Meath in 1450. In 1451 Richard, Duke of York, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland made his second son Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Since Edmund was only eight years old he was obviously obliged to act through a Deputy and the appointment was given to Bishop Oldhall, no doubt through the influence of his brother

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, who was

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and a key associate of the Duke of York. Edmund served as Deputy until 1454. The

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of the See were withheld from him for a time, but restored by Act of

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in 1455. He died on 9 August 1459 at his official residence of

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and was buried in St. Mary's Church nearby. An impressive monument was erected in his memory, but it was destroyed in the nineteenth century.Cogan ''Diocese of Meath''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Oldhall, Edmund 1459 deaths People from Breckland District Lord chancellors of Ireland 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Year of birth uncertain Bishops of Meath Carmelites