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Adam de Wynton (Winchester), Bishop-elect of Winchester. de Wynton (Winchester) Adam...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7298

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Reference
SC 8/146/7298
Date
[1319-1320]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Wynton (Winchester), Bishop-elect of Winchester.
Name(s)
de Wynton (Winchester), Adam
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop-elect of Winchester
Nature of request
Adam, Bishop-elect of Winchester states that he was elected in due form, but that the Archbishop of Canterbury has delayed ratification of that election, and has finally told him that he will do nothing until he has heard from the court of Rome, because he has letters from certain cardinals that the pope will present Rigaud de Asserio, an alien and not of the King's liegeance, whose election could lead to the disinheritance of the King and his heirs. He asks that the Archbishop might be ordered to do what belongs to his office according to the tenor of the King's commands to him, and that, if he will not, to ordain in parliament that letters might be sent to the pope, to allow the election to stand, or that some other remedy might be provided.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Winchester, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
John de Sandale, Bishop of Winchester
Prior and chapter of St Swithin, Winchester
[Walter Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury
John de Brutone, Chancellor of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Rigaud de Asserio (Assier).
Note
CPR 1317-21 p. 406 is dated 26 December 1319, and pp.438 and 441 are dated 17 April 1320. The petition would therefore seem to date to 1319-1320.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.406 (notification to the Archbishop of Canterbury of the royal assent to the election of Adam de Wynton as Bishop of Winchester) & p.438 & p.441 (order to deliver the temporalities of the Bishopric to Rigaud de Asserio)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209481/

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