Lionel Woodville

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Lionel Woodville
Denomination   Catholic
Senior posting
See   Bishop of Salisbury
Title  
Period in office   14821484
Predecessor   Richard Beauchamp
Successor   Thomas Langton
Personal
Date of birth  
Place of birth   c 1446
Date of death   June 1484

Lionel Woodville (c. 14461484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.

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[edit] Life

He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.

In the late 1470s, he became the first person to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.

After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November of 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated January 7 1482 and consecrated in April of 1482.[1]

He died about June 23 1484.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 252

[edit] References

  • Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

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Religious titles
Preceded by
Richard Beauchamp
Bishop of Salisbury
14821484
Succeeded by
Thomas Langton
Academic offices
Preceded by
Thomas Chaundeler
Chancellor of the University of Oxford
14791483
Succeeded by
William Dudley
Persondata
NAME Woodville, Lionel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Salisbury
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH June 1484
PLACE OF DEATH
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