The Episcopate of Thomas Bekynton, bishop of Bath and Wells, 1443–1465
Thomas of Bekynton, the son of a weaver, a famous churchman of the fifteenth century, was born about 1390 at Beckington, a village three miles north of Frome in the county of Somerset. He was admitted to Winchester College under the election of 1403, proceeded to New College, Oxford, on 24 June 1406...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1957
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1957, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-165 |
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| Summary: | Thomas of Bekynton, the son of a weaver, a famous churchman of the fifteenth century, was born about 1390 at Beckington, a village three miles north of Frome in the county of Somerset. He was admitted to Winchester College under the election of 1403, proceeded to New College, Oxford, on 24 June 1406, was elected a fellow 25 June 1408, admitted B.C.L. in 1414 or 1415 and incepted D.C.L. in 1418. He resigned his fellowship in November 1420 in order to become chancellor of duke Humphrey of Gloucester until he became secretary to king Henry VI in 1437. He was ordained sub-deacon on 20 December 1421, and priest on 18 September 1423 at Salisbury on the title of his benefice of Sutton Courtney. Preferments rapidly followed, the most important being the archdeaconry of Buckingham to which he was collated on 15 October 1424. From that date he would be summoned to attend Convocation and he acted as prolocutor at the sessions in November 1433, 1434 and May 1438 (session 28 April to 18 October 1438, with prorogation). He was Dean of the Arches in 1422 (possibly earlier) and it is most likely that he carried on up to 1433 when in October he became Official and remained in that office until April 1438. Thus for nearly five years he held simultaneously the two most important offices of Prolocutor and Official of the Court of Canterbury, having for nearly eleven years been Dean of the Arches. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046900067452 |