Richard Fleming (bishop)
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Richard Fleming (c. 1385 – 25 or 26 January 1431), Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford, was born at Crofton in Yorkshire.
Biography
Fleming was descended from a gentry family. His aunt, Cecily Fleming had married Robert Waterton, 'Henry IV's esquire and right-hand man'. His nephew, Robert Flemming, was likely an illegitimate son of Robert Flemming, esquire, of Wath, near Ripon (d.1459).[1][2][3]
Fleming was educated at
Before 1415 Fleming was instituted to the rectory of
In February 1424 the see of York being vacant, the pope conferred it on Fleming; but the regency council of the young king Henry VI refused to confirm the appointment, and Fleming resigned the appointment in July 1425.[5] In 1427, Fleming obtained a royal licence empowering him to found a college at Oxford for the special purpose of training theologians to combat Wyclif's heresy. To Bishop Fleming was entrusted the execution of the decree of the Council of Constance for the exhumation and burning of Wycliffe's remains, though Fleming delayed fulfilling this duty for over a decade. He died at Sleaford, Lincolnshire, in January 1431. Although his foundation of Lincoln College, Oxford, was incomplete at the time of his death, the college's future was eventually secured and Fleming's manuscript books became the core collection of the collegiate library (de la Mare, 1962–3).
Citations
- ^ Clough 2004.
- ^ Swanson 2004.
- ^ Whitehead 2004.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1996, p. 256.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1996, p. 282.
References
- Clough, Cecil H. (2004). "Flemming, Robert (1416–1483)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9714. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Bennett, N. H., ed. (1984). The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln: 1420–1431 volume I. Canterbury & York Society. Vol. 73.
- Bennett, N. H., ed. (2009). The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln: 1420–1431 volume II. Canterbury & York Society. Vol. 99.
- de la Mare, Albinia (1962-3). "Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Florentine MSS. of Robert Flemmyng in Lincoln College," Lincoln College Record: 7–16.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Nighman, Chris L. (1997). "Another look at the English staging of an Epiphany play at the Council of Constance", Records of Early English Drama 22.2: 11–18.
- Nighman, Chris L. (2000). “'Accipiant qui vocati sunt': Richard Fleming's reform sermon at the Council of Constance", Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.1: 1-36. (https://scholars.wlu.ca/hist_faculty/7/)
- Nighman, Chris L. (2003). "Rhetorical self-construction and its political context in Richard Fleming’s reform sermon for Passion Sunday at the Council of Constance", Annuarium historiae conciliorum 33.2: 405–25. (https://scholars.wlu.ca/hist_faculty/10/)
- Nighman, Chris L. (2008a). "Prudencia, plague & the pulpit: Richard Fleming’s eulogy for Robert Hallum at the Council of Constance", Annuarium historiae conciliorum 38.1: 183–98. (https://scholars.wlu.ca/hist_faculty/8/)
- Nighman, Chris L. (2008b). "Citations of 'noster' John Pecham in Richard Fleming's Trinity Sunday sermon: Evidence for the political use of liturgical music at the Council of Constance", Medieval Sermon Studies 52: 31–41. (https://scholars.wlu.ca/hist_faculty/17/)
- Swanson, R. N. (2004). "Flemming, Richard (d. 1431)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9709. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Whitehead, J. R. (2004). "Waterton, Robert (d.1425)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54421. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fleming, Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 494.
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