Robert Waldby

Infobox Archbishop of York
name = Robert Waldby


consecration = provided 5 October 1397
began = unknown
term_end = 6 January 1398
predecessor = Thomas Arundel
successor = Richard le Scrope
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death_date = 6 January 1398
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tomb = Westminster Abbey

Robert Waldby (died January 1398) was a native of York and an Austin Friar who followed the Black Prince into Aquitaine. After studying at Toulouse, he became professor of theology there.

He was possibly Bishop of Sodor and Man (1381) before becoming successively Bishop of Aire in Gascony (1387); Archbishop of Dublin to which he was transferred on 14 November 1391;Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 351] Bishop of Chichester to which he was transferred in late 1395;Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 239] and finally Archbishop of York to which he was provided on 5 October 1397, a post which lasted until his death on 6 January 1398.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 282]

He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his brass remains, in the Chapel of St. Edmund.

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External links

* [http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofy/rwaldby.html Robert Waldby at Britannia Biographies]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Archbishop of York; Archbishop of Dublin; Bishop of Aire; Bishop of Chichester
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DATE OF DEATH=6 January 1398
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