Arms displayed by Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin, at the signing of Magna Charta

Henry de Loundres (died

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) was an

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churchman who was

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, from 1213 to 1228. He was an influential figure in the reign of

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, an administrator and loyalist to the king, and is mentioned in the text of ''

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'', the terms of which he helped to negotiate. He was dean of Stafford in 1207, and commissioned a church in

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. He had continuing interests in

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. He was

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in Ireland from 1213, his deputy Geoffery de Marisco executing the responsibilities during the bishop's absence in Rome; and attempted unsuccessfully to have one of his clerks appointed

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in 1214. He was resisted by Donnchad Ua Longargain,

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, in his attempts to make the church hierarchy in Ireland more Anglo-Norman. He organized his archdiocese and made his cathedral see at the enlarged

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. He was a major figure in the completion by 1230 of

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, and had a hostel for pilgrims built in Dublin. In 1220 he ordered the extinction of the flame that kept burning in

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,
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association. He claimed to be

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, in opposition to the rival claim of the

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,: the struggle for supremacy between the Sees of Dublin and Armagh was to last for centuries.

Notes

References

*A. Gwynn, ''Henry of London, archbishop of Dublin: a study in Anglo-Norman statecraft'', Studies ublin38 (1949) 297-306, 389-402. *Margaret Murphy, ''Balancing the Concerns of Church and State: The Archbishops of Dublin, 1181-1228'', in Terence B. Barry, Robin Frame, Katharine Simms (editors), ''Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: Essays Presented to J. F. Lydon'' (1995) *James P. Carley, Felicity Riddy, ''Arthurian Literature XVI'' (1998), pp. 71–2 {{DEFAULTSORT:De Loundres, Henry 1228 deaths 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Archbishops of Dublin Year of birth unknown Normans in Ireland 13th-century English clergy Lords Lieutenant of Ireland