- Phillip Norreys
Phillip Norreys, Irish
theologian , fl. 1427-1465.A native of the
diocese ofDublin , Ireland, Norreys made a successful career for himself in the church andOxford university . He wasvicar ofDundalk from 1427, andDoctor of Theology atOxford by 1435. He was later successivelycanon ,prebendry and Dean ofSt Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin , occupying the latter post by 1457. He also held the post ofrector ofTrim .His controversies covered matters that had previously concerned his fellow Irishmen,
Richard FitzRalph ,Henry Crumpe andDr. John Whitehead . In 1431 he was attacked by the mendicant friars for having Oxford university issuing him letters protecting him from slander. In 1437 he appeared before the Papal Judge Delegate and theBishop of Bath & Wells because of attacks he made against the friars during his university lectures. When Norreys was supported by Oxford, the friars appealed to Rome and after a term of imprisonment by Henry VI, Norreys was declared guilty of heresy by a papal court in 1443.He successfully appealed to the Council of
Basel , by whom his sentence ofexcommunication was revoked. PopeCalixtus III then ordered the friars to leave him alone.Norreys wrote sermons, a tract called 'Declamationes', a book of scriptural commentry and the "Contra mendicitatem validam".
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* "A New History of Ireland", volume one.
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