Simon Sudbury
Simon Sudbury | |
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Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England | |
Church | Catholic Church |
Appointed | 4 May 1375 |
Installed | Unknown |
Term ended | 14 June 1381 |
Predecessor | William Whittlesey |
Successor | William Courtenay |
Other post(s) | Bishop of London |
Orders | |
Consecration | 20 March 1362 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1316 |
Died | 14 June 1381 (aged 64–65) |
Simon Sudbury[a] (c. 1316[1] – 14 June 1381) was Bishop of London from 1361 to 1375, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1375 until his death, and in the last year of his life Lord Chancellor of England. He met a violent death during the Peasants' Revolt in 1381.
Life
The son of Nigel Theobald, Simon of Sudbury (as he later became known) was born at Sudbury in Suffolk, studied at the University of Paris, and became one of the chaplains of Pope Innocent VI,[2] one of the Avignon popes, who in 1356 sent him on a mission to Edward III of England.
In 1361 Sudbury was made Chancellor of Salisbury[2] and in October that year the pope provided him to be Bishop of London, Sudbury's consecration occurring on 20 March 1362.[3] He was soon serving Edward III as an ambassador and in other ways. On 4 May 1375 he succeeded William Whittlesey as archbishop of Canterbury,[4] and during the rest of his life was a partisan of John of Gaunt.
In July 1377, following the death of Edward III in June, Simon of Sudbury
In January 1380, Sudbury became Lord Chancellor of England,[5] and the insurgent peasants regarded him as one of the principal authors of their woes. Having released John Ball from his prison at Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself. So unpopular was Sudbury with the rebellious peasants that guards simply allowed the rebels through the gates, the reason being his role in introducing the third poll tax.
Death
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Arms
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Notes
Citations
- . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ a b c Neale, John Preston (1825). Views of the most interesting collegiate and parochial churches in Great Britain. Longman. pp. 35–36.
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 258
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 233
- ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 86
- ^ Sperling, Charles Fredirick Denne (1896). A Short History of the Borough of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolk, compiled from materials collected by W. W. Hodson. Sudbury, Suffolk: B R Martin. pp. 110–112.
- ^ "History – St Gregory's Church Sudbury Suffolk". www.stgregorychurchsudbury.co.uk. St Gregory's Sudbury. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ "Skull scan for Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Theobald". BBC Online. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "Face of Simon of Sudbury revealed by forensic artist". BBC Online. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011. Page includes illustrations of face.
- ^ "Archbishop Sudbury". www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk. Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society. 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ See image
- ^ See image of Sudbury town arms
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.
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sudbury, Simon of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 19.
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