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Early life. William of Wykeham (born William Longe) was the son of John Longe, a freeman from Wickham in Hampshire. He was educated at a school in Winchester, and probably enjoyed early patronage from two local men, Sir Ralph Sutton, constable of Winchester Castle, and Sir John Scures, lord of the manor of Wickham, and then from Thomas Foxley, Constable of Windsor Castle.
Apr 16, 2024 · William of Wykeham was an English prelate and statesman, the founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford. Wykeham evidently came from a very poor family. Wealthy patrons helped him obtain an education, and about 1356 he entered the service of King Edward III. By the mid-1360s he was
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May 8, 2018 · William of Wykeham (1324–1404). Bishop of Winchester, keeper of the privy seal, chancellor of England. Possibly the son of a Hampshire serf, he entered royal service (c.1348) and superintended the rebuilding of Windsor castle. As bishop of Winchester (1366), he was the greatest ecclesiastical pluralist of the century with twelve appointments ...
Jan 3, 2015 · The death of William of Wykeham. William died at his Episcopal Palace of Bishop’s Waltham, not far from Wickham where he was born, at about eight o’clock on the morning of Saturday 27th September 1404 at the grand old age of 80 years. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral, in a wonderful Chantry Chapel he had prepared some years before.
Dec 1, 2009 · Extract. William Wykeham, the ‘peasant boy’ who became chancellor of England and bishop of one of the wealthiest sees in Christendom, about whom Froissart famously remarked that ‘everything was done by him, and nothing was done without him’, has indeed, as Virginia Davis remarks at the outset of this book, been ‘oddly neglected’ by ...
- Chris Given-Wilson
- 2009
David Raeburn to translate Johnson’s verse life of Wykeham into English rhyming couplets; this is the first translation of this verse life of which we know. Their text was that printed in Willes’s 1571 Poematum liber. This is the result: The Origins and Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester
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4 days ago · Date accessed: 31 May, 2024. In the six centuries after his death in 1404 William Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, has not lacked biographers. As prelate and patron of learning, he inspired pious remembrance. Dr Thomas Aylward, one of his executors, composed a brief memoir shortly after his death, and Robert Heete, a beneficiary of his patronage ...
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