Simon Langham

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Simon Langham
Archbishop of Canterbury
Enthroned {{{began}}}
Ended November 28, 1368
Predecessor William Edington
Successor William Whittlesey
Born 1310
Died July 22, 1376
Buried Westminster Abbey
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Simon de Langham (born 1310 - died 1376) was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal.

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[edit] Life

He was born at Langham in Rutland. The manor of Langham was a property of Westminster Abbey, and he had become a monk in the Benedictine abbey of St Peter at Westminster by 1346, and later prior and then abbot of this house.[1]

In November of 1360 he was made treasurer of England[2] and on January 10, 1362 he became bishop of Ely and was consecrated on March 20, 1362;[3] he was appointed chancellor of England on February 21, 1363[4] and was chosen archbishop of Canterbury on July 24, 1366.[5] He resigned the Treasurership before February 20, 1363.[2]

Perhaps the most interesting incident in his primacy was when he drove the secular clergy from their college of Canterbury Hall, Oxford, and filled their places with monks. The expelled head of the seculars was a certain John de Wiclif, who has been identified with the great reformer Wycliffe.

Notwithstanding the part Langham as chancellor had taken in the anti-papal measures of 1365 and 1366 he was made cardinal of St Sixtus by Pope Urban V in 1368. This step lost him the favour of Edward III, and two months later he resigned his archbishopric and went to Avignon.[5] He had already resigned the Chancellorship on July 18, 1367.[4] He was soon allowed to hold other although less exalted positions in England, and in 1374 he was elected archbishop of Canterbury for the second time; but he withdrew his claim and died at Avignon on July 22, 1376. Langham’s tomb, the work of Henry Yevele, is the oldest monument to an ecclesiastic in Westminster Abbey. He left the residue of his estate – a large sum – and his library to the abbey, and has been called its second founder. His bequest paid for the building of the western section of the nave.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 105
  2. ^ a b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 104
  3. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 244
  4. ^ a b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 86
  5. ^ a b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 233

[edit] References

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 

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Political offices
Preceded by
John Sheppey		 Lord High Treasurer
1360–1363		 Succeeded by
John Barnet
Preceded by
William Edington		 Lord Chancellor
1363–1367		 Succeeded by
William of Wykeham
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Thomas de Lisle		 Bishop of Ely
1362–1366		 Succeeded by
John Barnet
Preceded by
William Edington		 Archbishop of Canterbury
1366–1368		 Succeeded by
William Whittlesey
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post-Reformation (Anglican)

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NAME Langham, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langham, Simon de
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Ely; Archbishop of Canterbury; Cardinal of St. Sixtus
DATE OF BIRTH 1310
PLACE OF BIRTH Langham, Rutland
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1376
PLACE OF DEATH Avignon