William Dudley (died 1483) was
Dean of Windsor and then
Bishop of Durham.
Born William Sutton, of Dudley, he was a younger son of
John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.
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
The Dean of Wolverhampton was the head of the chapter of Canons at St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton until the chapter was disestablished in 1846. The collegiate church was, until that point, a Royal Peculiar falling outside of the dio ...
: 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. In the last months of his life he was
Chancellor of Oxford University
This is a list of chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment.
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See also
*List of vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford
*List of University of Oxford people
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.
[Loades p. 1] Dudley died on 29 November 1483.
Citations
References
*
*Loades, David (1996): ''John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553'', Oxford: Clarendon Press,
*
Ross, Charles (1981): ''Richard III'', Berkeley: University of California Press,
1483 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Deans of Windsor
Bishops of Durham
15th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Chancellors of the University of Oxford
William
Deans of Wolverhampton
Deans of the Chapel Royal
Year of birth unknown
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