William Dudley (bishop)

William Dudley
William Dudley
Bishop of Durham
	Dudley's tombstone in Brinkburn Priory. The Latin inscription reads "Here lies William former Bishop of Cluny and Suffragan of Durham and Prior of the Monastery whose soul has returned to God. He died AD 1484."
Appointed	31 July 1476
Term ended	29 November 1483
Predecessor	Laurence Booth
Successor	John Sherwood
Orders
Consecration	between 1 September and 12 October 1476
Personal details
Died	29 November 1483
Denomination	Catholic

William Dudley (died 1483) was Dean of Windsor and then Bishop of Durham.

Born William Sutton, of Dudley, he was a younger son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.^[1] He was made a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor and Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1471 and elevated to Dean of Windsor in 1473, a position which he held with that of Dean of Wolverhampton: thereafter the two posts were customarily held by the same man.

Dudley was nominated to Durham on 31 July 1476 and was consecrated between 1 September and 12 October 1476. In 1483 he supported Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the future King Richard III, in his bid for the Throne of England.^[2] In the last months of his life he was Chancellor of Oxford University.^[1] Dudley died on 29 November 1483.^[3]^[4]

Citations

^ ^a ^b Loades p. 1
^ Ross p. 43
^ Fryde, et al. p. 242
^ Pollard, A. J. "Dudley, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8163. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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.
Loades, David (1996): John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-820193-1
Ross, Charles (1981): Richard III, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-05075-4

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Laurence Booth	Bishop of Durham 1476–1483	Succeeded by John Sherwood
Academic offices
Preceded by Lionel Woodville	Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1483	Succeeded by John Russell

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[Loades_p._1-1] Loades p. 1

[2] Ross p. 43

[3] Fryde, et al. p. 242

[4] Pollard, A. J. "Dudley, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8163. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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