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The Episcopate during the Reign of Edward II and the Regency of Mortimer and Isabella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2005

ROY MARTIN HAINES
ROY MARTIN HAINES
Affiliation:
Soundings, Water Street, Curry Rivel, Near Langport, Somerset TR10 0HL; e-mail: rmhaines@soundings.fsnet.co.uk
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Abstract

This article combines prosopographical analysis of the episcopate between 1307 and 1330 with examination of its participation in the politics of the time – baronial unrest, the deposition of Edward II and a regency dominated by his queen and her paramour. Elevation to the episcopate brought status, an opportunity for career clerks. Nobles were not prominent among bishops, nor were regular clergy; curiales were, but more numerous were university men. The differing roles of archbishops Winchelsey, Reynolds, Mepham, and to a marginal extent Stratford, are reviewed. Crucial is the reaction of prelates to the crisis of 1326–7. Diagrams and tables help to quantify the conclusions reached.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 657 - 709
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

BIHR=Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research; BRUC= A. B. Emden, Biographical register of the University of Cambridge to 1500, Cambridge 1963; BRUO= A. B. Emden, Biographical register of the University of Oxford to 1500, Oxford 1957–9; CCCC=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; CPMR=Calendar of plea and memoranda rolls … of the City of London, 1323–1364, ed. A. H. Thomas, Cambridge 1926; CUL=Cambridge University Library; DHGE=Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Paris–Louvain 1912–; HBC=Handbook of British chronology, ed. E. B. Fryde and others, 3rd edn, London 1986; RS=Rolls Series; TCC=Trinity College, Cambridge; WHS=Worcestershire Historical Society