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Edmund Lacey

Edmund Lacey

15th-century Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Hereford

Edmund Lacey (or Lacy; died 1455) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.

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Sign of the Bishop Lacy public house in Chudleigh, Devon

Lacey was educated at University College, Oxford, where he was a mature commoner, then Fellow, and subsequently Master of the College from 1398 until around 1401.[2] The College prospered and developed under him, as well as under John Appleton and John Castell who followed him.[3]

In 1401, Lacey was appointed Canon of the ninth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1417.[4]

Around 1414, Lacey was appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal, accompanying King Henry V to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.[5] He was elected to the see of Hereford between 21 January and 17 February 1417 and consecrated on 18 April 1417.[6] He was then translated to the see of Exeter on 15 July 1420.[7] While bishop at Exeter, Lacey promoted the cult of the Archangel Raphael, proclaiming the feast in his diocese in 1443, and working throughout England to institute the cult.[8]

Lacey died on 18 September 1455.[7] His executors appear as John Cobethorn, Henry Webber, John Germyn and John Burnebyry, all church officials, in 1460;[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.491
  2. [2]
    Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. pages 45, 60, 73–74, 529.
  3. [3]
    Carr, William, University College, Routledge, 1998. ISBN 978-0-415-18632-2. Chapter IV, The Fifteenth Century: Early Benefactors, Buildings, and Further Statutes (pages 53–73).
  4. [4]
    Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  5. [5]
    George Oliver, Edmund Lucy Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. In Lives of the Bishops of Exeter Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Exeter: William Roberts, Broadgate, 1861.
  6. [6]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 251
  7. [7]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
  8. [8]
    Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 171
  9. [9]
    http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no798/aCP40n0798fronts/IMG_0400.htm second entry

Bibliography

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Swanson, R. N. (1995). Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37950-4.
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