Thomas Fastolf
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| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Alma mater | Probably Cambridge |
Thomas Fastolf, sometimes spelt Fastolfe (died June 1361), was an
Probably educated at
Early life
Fastolf was one of three sons of Thomas Fastolf, of
Career
By 1326, Fastolf was a clerk of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (d. 1335), and by about 1335 he was a papal judge at Avignon, with a seat in the rota. He became an auditor of the apostolic palace before 1340, probably during the life of his patron Bateman, who had great influence at the Avignon curia.[1] In 1340 he and Robert de Tresk were appointed the proctors at Avignon of John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
Fastolf gained various preferments at home as rewards for his services. In 1326 he was appointed prebendary of York and archdeacon of Coventry and later gained several other prebends. From 1340 to 1347 he was archdeacon of Norwich, and from 1347 to 1352 archdeacon of Wells.[1]
Although
In 1352 Fastolf's services in Avignon were rewarded with the bishopric of St David's. He resigned his seat in the rota, the English presence there being continued by Simon Sudbury.[1] He received the spiritualities of St David's on 29 March 1353 and the temporalities of the diocese on 4 June.[4]
As Bishop of St David's for nine years, Fastolf appears to have presided over a period of quiet order, with no major new projects undertaken. A historian of the bishop's palace at St David's writes:
Of Bishop Thomas Fastolf, who held the See from 1353 to 1361, practically nothing is known. There is no reason to suppose that any important work was initiated during this period, though it is possible that buildings begun by Gower, may have been completed under his successors.[5]
In 1358, Fastolf made a
Fastolf made a
Notes
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), online editionaccessed 5 December 2010
- ^ Roy Martin Haines, Archbishop John Stratford, Political Revolutionary and Champion of the Liberties of the English Church, ca. 1275/80-1348 (1986), p. 117
- ^ John Hamilton Baker, Monuments of endlesse labours: English canonists and their work (1998), p. 22
- ^ a b George William Manby, The history and antiquities of the parish of Saint David, South-Wales (1801), p. 143
- ^ Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford, The Bishop's palace, St David's, Pembrokeshire (1953), p. 5
- ^ Edward Yardley, Francis Green, Menevia sacra (Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1927): "We have a Statute remaining of Bishop Thomas Fastolf, made 1358, & confirmed by King Rich. II, to enable ye Prebendaries severally to gather their share of ye Tythes with ye more ease & safety."
- ^ W. B. Jones and E. A. Freeman, The history and antiquities of Saint David's, pp. 121–122
- ^ Cambrian medieval Celtic studies, Issues 41–44 (2001), p. 64
Further reading
- J. H. Baker, "Dr Thomas Fastolfe and the history of law reporting", in Cambridge Law Journal, vol. 45 (1986), pp. 84–96
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