Lionel Woodville

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name =Lionel Woodville


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Salisbury
Title = Bishop of Salisbury
Period = 1482–1484
Predecessor = Richard Beauchamp
Successor =Thomas Langton
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place of birth =c 1446
date of death =June 1484
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Lionel Woodville (c. 1446 – 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.

Life

He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.

In the late 1470s, he became the first person in recorded history to receive an honorary degree, from the University of Oxford.

After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November of 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated January 7 1482 and consecrated in April of 1482.Powicke "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 252]

He died about June 23 1484.

ee also

*List of bishops of Salisbury

Notes

References

*Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

External links

* [http://grr.xoc.net/familytree/html/d0084/i1819.html Bishop of Salisbury]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10751.htm The Peerage:Britains Royal Family]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=32238 "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541": volume 9]

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