Priors of Worcester
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This is a list of priors of Worcester, until the Benedictine Order's dissolution in 1540.
| class="wikitable"
|+ List of priors of Worcester Cathedral | |||
| scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Appointed ! scope="col" | Retired ! scope="col" | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wulfstan | 1062 | Became Bishop of Worcester{{harvnb|Greenway|1971|pp=102–104}} | |
| Ælfstan | 1062 | 1080 | Brother of Wulfstan and probably succeeded him as prior{{sfn|Greatrex|1997|p=768}} |
| Thomas | 1080 | d.1113 | {{sfn|Greatrex|1997|pp=883-884}} |
| Nicholas | c.1116 | d.1124 | {{sfn|Winterbottom|Thomson|2002|p=132 n. 2}} |
| Warin | Before 1133 | Around 1140-42 | |
| Ralph of Bath | 1142 | d.1143 | |
| David | 1143 | Deposed 1145 | |
| Osbert | 1145 | d.1146 | |
| Ralph de Bedeford | 1146 | d.1189 | |
| M. Senatus | 1189 | d.1207 | |
| Peter | 1196 | Deposed 1203 | |
| Randulph of Evesham | 1203 | 1214 | Became Abbott of Evesham |
| Silvester of Evesham | 1215 | 1216 | Became Bishop of Worcester |
| Simon Pimme | 1216 | Deposed 1220-22 | Appealed to Pope unsuccessfully, died 1223 |
| William Norman | 1222 | resigned 1224 | Appointed by Bishop, quarrelled with the convent, arguments settled 1224 |
| William de Bedeforde | 1224 | d.1242 | |
| Richard de Gundicote | 1242 | d.1252 | |
| Thomas | 1252 | d.1260 | |
| Richard de Dumbleton | 1260 | 1272 | |
| William de Cirencester | 1272 | d.1274 | |
| Richard de Feckenham | 1274 | d.1286 | |
| Philip de Aubyn | 1287 | d.1296 | |
| Simon de Wyre | 1296 | resigned 1301 | |
| John de Wyke | 1301 | 1317 | {{harvnb|Jones|1963|pp=59–60]}} |
| Wulstan de Bransford | 1317 | 1338/9 | Became Bishop of Worcester |
| Simon de Botiler | 1339 | 1339 | |
| Simon Crompe | 1339 | 1340 | |
| John de Evesham | 1340 | 1370 | |
| Walter de Legh | 1370 | 1388 | |
| John Green | 1388 | 1395 | |
| John de Malvern | 1395 | ||
| John de Fordham | 1438 | ||
| Thomas Ledbury | 1438 | 1444 | |
| John Hertelbury | 1444 | 1455 | |
| Thomas Musard | 1455 | 1469 | |
| Robert Multon | 1469 | 1492 | |
| William Wenlocke | 1492 | 1499 | |
| Thomas Mildenham | 1499 | 1507 | |
| John Wednesbury | 1507 | 1518 | |
| William More | 1518 | 1536 | |
| Henry Holbeach | 1536 | 1540 |
References
Sources
Primary sources
- {{Citation |publisher = Printed for the Worcestershire Historical Society, by M. Hughes and Clarke |ol = 23307603M |publication-place = London |title = Journal of Prior William More.|editor1-last=Fegan |editor1-first=Ethel S |url = https://archive.org/details/journalofpriorwi00morerich |first1 = William|last1=More |authorlink1=William More (prior)|publication-date = 1914 }}
Secondary sources
- {{cite book|last=Greatrex |first=Joan |title=Biographical Register of English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c.1066-1540 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location =Oxford, UK |year=1997|isbn=978-0-19-820424-4}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Greenway |editor1-first=Diana E |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 2, Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces) |date=1971 |publisher=British History Online |location=London |pages=102–104 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol2/pp102-104 |access-date=17 June 2018 |chapter=Priors of Worcester}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=B |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province) |date=1963 |publisher=British History Online |location=London |pages=59–60 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol4/pp59-60 |access-date=17 June 2018 |chapter=Priors of Worcester}}
- {{cite book| editor1-first=Michael|editor1-last=Winterbottom|editor1-link=Michael Winterbottom (academic) |editor2-first=Rodney|editor2-last=Thomson |title=William of Malmesbury: Saints’ Lives|chapter=Life of Wulfstan|pages=1-155|language=Latin, English|publisher=Clarendon Press |location =Oxford, UK |year=2002|isbn= 978-0-19-820709-2 }}
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