Robert Stillington
Robert Stillington | |
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Bishop of Bath and Wells | |
Appointed | 30 October 1465 |
Term ended | May 1491 |
Predecessor | Thomas Beckington |
Successor | Richard Foxe |
Orders | |
Consecration | 16 March 1466 |
Personal details | |
Born | about 1405 Nether Acaster, Yorkshire, England |
Died | before June 1491 |
Denomination | Catholic |
Robert Stillington (about 1405 – May 1491) was an English cleric and administrator who was
Life
Stillington was Archdeacon of Taunton (1450–1465) and Archdeacon of Berkshire (1464–1465)[1] when he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1460 to 1467.[2]
Stillington was selected as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465, and was consecrated on 16 March 1466.[3] He was appointed Lord Chancellor on 20 June 1467 and held the office until 29 September 1470, when Henry VI was restored to the throne. After the return of Edward IV, he was reappointed to his former office and held it until 18 June 1473, when Edward dismissed him.[4]
In 1478, Stillington spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced
After Edward's death in April 1483, Stillington was a member of the council of the boy-king
After Henry VII defeated Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, he immediately had Stillington imprisoned again. Henry had the bigamy charge against Edward IV reversed, and married Edward's daughter, Elizabeth of York.
Some years after Stillington's second release, he became involved in the plot to place the impostor
Citations
- ^ Kingsford "Stillington, Robert" Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology, p. 95.
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology, p. 228.
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology, p. 87.
- ^ Paul Murray Kendall "Richard the Third", pp.257-258; 459; 554.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
References
- 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.
- Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1898). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In