Lionel Woodville

Lionel Woodville
Lionel Woodville
Bishop of Salisbury
Appointed	7 January 1482
Term ended	c. 23 June 1484
Predecessor	Richard Beauchamp
Successor	Thomas Langton
Orders
Consecration	21 April 1482; by Thomas Cardinal Bourchier
Personal details
Born	c. 1446; Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, Kingdom of England
Died	c. 23 June 1484, c. 38 years old
Denomination	Catholic
Coat of arms

Lionel Woodville (1447 – 23 June 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury in England.

Life

Woodville was a fourth son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.

In the late 1470s, Woodville became the first person in recorded history to receive an honorary degree (DCL), from the University of Oxford.^[1] He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1479 to 1483.

After a number of more minor clerical positions, Woodville was elected Dean of Exeter in November 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury.^[2] He was nominated to Salisbury on 7 January 1482 and consecrated on 21 April 1482.^[3]

Woodville died about 23 June 1484.^[3]

Citations

^ "Home".
^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/887, in 1484, {Latin} first defendant, surname as 'Wydevill', in the top entry, in a case of debt; {both Oxford & Salisbury are mentioned}
^ ^a ^b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 271

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.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Richard Beauchamp	Bishop of Salisbury 1482–1484	Succeeded by Thomas Langton
Academic offices
Preceded by Thomas Chaundeler	Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1479–1483	Succeeded by William Dudley

[1] "Home".

[2] Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/887, in 1484, {Latin} first defendant, surname as 'Wydevill', in the top entry, in a case of debt; {both Oxford & Salisbury are mentioned}

[Handbook271-3] Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 271

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v t e Bishops of Salisbury
see at Sherborne	see erected from Winchester St Aldhelm Forthhere Herewald Æthelmod Denefrith Wigberht Eahlstan St Heahmund Æthelheah Wulfsige Asser Æthelweard Wærstan Æthelbald Sigehelm Alfred Wulfsige II Ælfwold I Æthelsige I Wulfsige III Æthelric Æthelsige II Brithwine I Ælfmær Brithwine II St Ælfwold II Herman see united with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum
see at Old Sarum	united from Sherborne & Ramsbury Herman Saint Osmund Roger Henry of Sully Philip de Harcourt Josceline de Bohon Hubert Walter Herbert Poore Richard Poore see removed to New Sarum
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Early modern	Edmund Audley Lorenzo Campeggio Nicholas Shaxton John Capon Gasparo Contarini William Petow Francis Mallet John Jewel Edmund Gheast John Piers John Coldwell Henry Cotton Robert Abbot Martin Fotherby Robert Tounson John Davenant Brian Duppa Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Brian Duppa Humphrey Henchman John Earle Alexander Hyde Seth Ward Gilbert Burnet William Talbot Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly Thomas Sherlock John Gilbert John Thomas (I) Robert Hay Drummond John Thomas (II) John Hume Shute Barrington John Douglas
Late modern	John Fisher Thomas Burgess Edward Denison Walter Kerr Hamilton George Moberly John Wordsworth Frederick Ridgeway St Clair Donaldson Neville Lovett Geoffrey Lunt William Anderson Joe Fison George Reindorp John Baker David Stancliffe Nick Holtam Stephen Lake

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