Milo Sweetman (died 1380) was a fourteenth-century Irish Archbishop of Armagh, who was noted for his fierce defence of the privileges of his
archdiocese
.
Biography
Sweetman was
Archbishop of Armagh.[1] He was summoned to England attend to meet the King in the same year, but pleaded to be excused attendance.[2]
Sweetman revived the old controversy as to whether the Archbishop of Armagh had primacy over the
contempt of Parliament in failing to attend the meeting. Having thus asserted his authority, Sweetman was content to let the matter lapse, and no further action was taken against Minot. The controversy remained dormant for some decades, but flared up again in the fifteenth century.[3]
Sweetman was present at the
taxes. Since this deprived the exercise of any point, it was not repeated.[1]
Having governed the Primatial See for nineteen years he died in 1380, and is buried in Dromiskin, Co. Louth.[1] He is one of the first recorded Sweetmans in Irish history: Maurice Sweetman, Archdeacon of Armagh, is likely to have been a nephew or cousin of Milo. Richard Sweetman was Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Thomas the Martyr, in the city of Dublin, in 1306.
