Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers has coloured most subsequent accounts of his career; they give us a portrait of a man unqualified by age or ability to be a bishop, yet promoted to that office by the pope as a result of family influence and royal intervention; a man who nonetheless betrayed the monarch who had so conspicuously favoured him by lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and thereafter by plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh's episcopal register reveals a different character. The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester.
Volume 87 The Registers of Bishop Henry Burghersh 1320-1342. Volume I Institutions to Benefices in the Archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester
Editor Dr. Nicholas Bennett, Vice Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date 1999
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 0 901503 64 9
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations, 3 pages
Introduction, 12 pages
Archdeaconry of Lincoln Institutions, 89 pages
Archdeaconry of Stow Institutions, 13 pages
Archdeaconry of Leicester Institutions, 45 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 66 pages
Index of Subjects, 7 pages
Dust jacket blurb Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers has coloured most subsequent accounts of his career; they give us a portrait of a man unqualified by age or ability to be a bishop, yet promoted to that office by the pope as a result of family influence and royal intervention; a man who nonetheless betrayed the monarch who had so conspicuously favoured him by lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and thereafter by plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh's episcopal register reveals a different character. The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester.
Editor Dr. Nicholas Bennett, Vice Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date 1999
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 0 901503 64 9
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations, 3 pages
Introduction, 12 pages
Archdeaconry of Lincoln Institutions, 89 pages
Archdeaconry of Stow Institutions, 13 pages
Archdeaconry of Leicester Institutions, 45 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 66 pages
Index of Subjects, 7 pages
Dust jacket blurb Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers has coloured most subsequent accounts of his career; they give us a portrait of a man unqualified by age or ability to be a bishop, yet promoted to that office by the pope as a result of family influence and royal intervention; a man who nonetheless betrayed the monarch who had so conspicuously favoured him by lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and thereafter by plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh's episcopal register reveals a different character. The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester.