Richard Mayew (1439/40–1516), also written Mayo, was an

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academic, who became Bishop of Hereford (1504 to 1516) and a diplomat for

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Biography

Mayew was born in

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, Berkshire,

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. He was

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of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1480 to 1507; previously he had been a

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of New College, Oxford, and was brought in by

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of the

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in 1484–5, and

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in 1502. He was collated Archdeacon of Oxford in 1493 and

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in 1501 and was elevated to the bishopric of Hereford and the position of Lord Almoner in 1504. In 1501 he was one of the party who brought Catherine of Aragon from

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for her marriage to Prince Arthur, a mission commemorated in tapestries. Mayew was buried at Hereford Cathedral.UK Southwest
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