Richard FitzJames

Richard FitzJames (died 1522) was an English academic and administrator who became successively Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of Chichester, and Bishop of London.

Richard FitzJames
Bishop of London
Appointed5 June 1506
Term ended15 January 1522
PredecessorWilliam Barons
SuccessorCuthbert Tunstall
Orders
Consecration21 May 1497
Personal details
Died15 January 1522
DenominationCatholic Church
Previous post(s)Bishop of Rochester
Bishop of Chichester
Coat of armsRichard FitzJames's coat of arms

Origins

Born about 1442, he was the son of John FitzJames (died 1476), who lived at Redlynch in Somerset, and his wife Alice Newburgh. The judge, Sir John FitzJames was his nephew.[1]

Career

He was principal of St Alban Hall, Oxford from 1477 to 1481[2] and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1481 and 1491.

He was nominated to the see of Rochester on 2 January 1497 and consecrated on 21 May 1497, being translated to the see of Chichester on 29 November 1503.[3] He was translated from Chichester to the see of London about 5 June 1506.[4]

He died in London on 15 January 1522,[5] and was buried in a tomb he had prepared for himself in the nave of Old St Paul's Cathedral,[1] with his arms being depicted on the ceiling.[6] During his life he had co-founded a school in his native Somerset, now known as King's School Bruton, which he remembered in his will dated 11 April 1518.[1]

References

  1. Thompson, S. (2004). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9612. Retrieved 22 October 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Pocock, Nicholas (1885–1900). "Fitzjames, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 180–181.
  3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 268
  4. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 240
  5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 259
  6. Dingley, Thomas (c. 1680). History from Marble. London. p. 449.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

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