William Whittlesey

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William Whittlesey
Archbishop of Canterbury
Appointed 11 October 1368
Installed unknown
Term ended 5 June 1374
Predecessor Simon Langham
Successor Simon Sudbury
Other posts Bishop of Rochester
Bishop of Worcester
Orders
Consecration 6 February 1362
Personal details
Died 5 June 1374
Lambeth

William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (died 5 June 1374) was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Life

Whittlesey was probably born in the Cambridgeshire village of Whittlesey, England.

Whittlesey was educated at Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch, Croydon and Cliffe.

Whittlesey was briefly appointed Master of Peterhouse on 10 September 1349 and resigned from that post in 1351.[1] Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then dean of the court of arches by Islip. On 23 October 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on 6 February 1362.[2] Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.[3] On 11 October 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to Simon Langham, but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health. He died at Lambeth on the 5th or 6 June 1374.[4]

Citations

  1. Roach (editor) "The colleges and halls: Peterhouse" History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
  2. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 267
  3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 279
  4. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 233

References

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Rochester
1360–1364
Succeeded by
Thomas Trilleck
Preceded by Bishop of Worcester
1364–1368
Succeeded by
William Lenn
Preceded by Archbishop of Canterbury
1368–1374
Succeeded by
Simon Sudbury
Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
1349–1351
Succeeded by
Richard de Wisbeche


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