Henry of Sandwich (died 1273) was a medieval

Bishop of London A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

Life

Henry was the son of Henry of Sandwich, a knight from

Sandwich, Kent Sandwich is a town and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports and still has many original medieval buildings, including sev ...

. He held the

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of Weldland in the

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.Greenway
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops
' Henry was Archdeacon of Oxford from 1259 to 1262.Greenway
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 3: Lincoln: Archdeacons of Oxford
' He was elected

on 13 November 1262,

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21 December and consecrated on 27 May 1263. He was suspended from office on 1 December 1265 but was reinstated by

Pope Gregory X Pope Gregory X ( la, Gregorius X; – 10 January 1276), born Teobaldo Visconti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1271 to his death and was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. He was ...

on 31 May 1272. He returned to England from exile on 31 January 1273. Henry died on 15 September 1273.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258 After his death, his nephew Sir Ralph de Sandwich was made administrator of the See of London, having already acted as their administrator during Henry's exile in Rome.

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* Bishops of London 1273 deaths Year of birth unknown 13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops People from Sandwich, Kent {{England-bishop-stub