Phillip Norreys
Phillip Norreys,
theologian
, fl. 1427-1465.
A native of the
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, occupying the latter post by 1457. He also held the post of rector of Trim
.
His controversies covered matters that had previously concerned his fellow Irishmen,
Bishop of Bath & Wells because of attacks he made against the friars during his university lectures. When Norreys was supported by Oxford, the friars appealed to Rome and after a term of imprisonment by Henry VI
, Norreys was declared guilty of heresy by a papal court in 1443.
He successfully appealed to the
Calixtus III
then ordered the friars to leave him alone.
Norreys wrote sermons, a tract called 'Declamationes', a book of scriptural commentary and the Contra mendicitatem validam.
Sources
- A New History of Ireland, volume one.