William Whittlesey

Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury
Full name = William Whittlesey


birth_name =
consecration = 11 October 1368
began = 11 October 1368
term_end = 5 June 1374
predecessor = Simon Langham
successor = Simon Sudbury
birth_date =
death_date = 5 June 1374
tomb =

William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (d. 5 June 1374), was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Life

He was probably born in the Cambridgeshire village of Whittlesey, England.

He was educated at Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch, Croydon and Cliffe.

He was briefly appointed Master of Peterhouse on 10 September 1349 and resigned from that post in 1351. ['The colleges and halls: Peterhouse', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge (1959), pp. 334-340. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66643. Date accessed: 2 July 2008.] Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then dean of the court of arches by Islip. On 23 October 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on 6 February 1362.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 267] Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 279] On 11 October 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to Simon Langham, but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health. He died at Lambeth on the 5th or 6th of June 1374.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 233]

References

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succession box
title = Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
years = 1349–1351
before = Ralph de Holbeche
after = Richard de Wisbeche

Persondata
NAME= Whittlesey, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Whittlesea, William
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of Rochester; Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of Canterbury
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH=June 1374
PLACE OF DEATH=Lambeth Palace