Bishops of Norwich
(From 1070 to 1635)
|
Bishops of Norwich (From 1070 to 1635) |
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|
Office Holder |
|
Year
of appointment and termination |
| Herfast | first Bishop of Thetford | 1070-1086 |
| William de Beaufeu | 1086-1091 | |
| Herbert Losinga | moved see to Norwich in 1094 | 1091-1119 |
| Everard |
Archdeacon of
Salisbury deposed 1145 |
1121-1145 |
| William de Turbe | 1146-1174 | |
| John of Oxford | Dean of Salisbury | 1175-1200 |
| John De Grey | 1200-1214 | |
| see vacant | 1214-1222 | |
| Pandulf Masca | legate of Pope Innocent III | 1222-1226 |
| Thomas Blunville | Clerk of the Royal Exchequer | 1226-1236 |
| Ralph de Norwich | 1236 | |
| see vacant | 1236-1239 | |
| William De Raley |
Treasurer of
Exeter translated to Winchester 1244 |
1239-1244 |
| Walter Suffield | 1245-1257 | |
| Simon De Wanton | 1258-1266 | |
| Roger Skirnyng | 1266-1278 | |
| William Middleton | 1278-1288 | |
| Ralph Walpole |
Archdeacon of
Ely translated to Ely 1299 |
1289-1299 |
| John Salmon |
Prior of Ely Lord Chancellor 1319-1323 |
1299-1325 |
| William Ayermin | Master of the Rolls | 1325-1336 |
| Antony Bek | 1337-1343 | |
| William Bateman | 1344-1355 | |
| Thomas Percy | 1356-1369 | |
| Henry Spenser | 1370-1406 | |
| Alexander Tottington | 1407-1413 | |
| Richard Courtenay | 1413-1415 | |
| John Wakering | Archdeacon of Canterbury | 1416-1425 |
| William Alnwick |
Archdeacon of
Salisbury translated to Lincoln 1436 |
1426-1436 |
| Thomas Brown | Bishop of Rochester | 1436-1445 |
| Walter Le Hart | Provost of Oriel College, Oxford | 1445-1472 |
| James Goldwell | Dean of Salisbury | 1472-1498 |
| Thomas Jane | 1499-1500 | |
| Richard Nykk | Archdeacon of Exeter and Canon of Windsor | 1501-1536 |
| William Repps |
Abbot of St
Bennet of Holm resigned 1550 |
1536-1550 |
| Thomas Thirlby | 1550-1554 | |
| John Hopton | chaplain to Queen Mary | 1554-1558 |
| John Parkhurst | 1560-1575 | |
| Edmund Freak |
Bishop of
Rochester translated to Worcester 1584 |
1575-1584 |
| Edmund Scambler | Bishop of Peterborough | 1585-1594 |
| William Redman | Archdeacon of Canterbury | 1594-1602 |
| John Jegon | Master of Bene't College, Cambridge | 1602-1617 |
| John Overall | Bishop of Lichfield | 1618-1619 |
| Samuel Harsnet | translated to York 1628 | 1619-1628 |
| Francis White | translated to Ely 1631 | 1628-1631 |
| Richard Corbet | Bishop of Norwich | 1632-1635 |
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