Simon Sudbury

Simon Sudbury
Simon Sudbury
Installed	unknown
Term ended	14 June 1381
Predecessor	William Whittlesey
Successor	William Courtenay
Orders
Consecration	translate 4 May 1375
Personal details
Died	14 June 1381

Simon Theobald or Simon of Sudbury (died 14 June 1381) was an Archbishop of Canterbury (1375–1381) as well as Bishop of London.

Life

He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk, studied at the University of Paris, and became one of the chaplains of Pope Innocent VI, who sent him, in 1356, on a mission to Edward III of England.

In October of 1361 the pope appointed him Bishop of London, and he was consecrated on 20 March 1362.^[1] He was soon serving the king as an ambassador and in other ways. On 4 May 1375 he succeeded William Whittlesey as archbishop of Canterbury,^[2] and during the rest of his life was a partisan of John of Gaunt.

In July of 1377, he crowned Richard II, and in 1378 John Wycliffe appeared before him at Lambeth, but he only undertook proceedings against the reformer under great pressure.

In January of 1380, Sudbury became Lord Chancellor of England,^[3] and the insurgent peasants regarded him as one of the principal authors of their woes. Having released John Ball from his prison at Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself. So unpopular was Sudbury that guards simply allowed the rebels through the gates.

Sudbury was dragged to Tower Hill and, on 14 June 1381,^[2] was beheaded. His body was afterwards buried in Canterbury Cathedral, though his head (after being taken down from London Bridge) is still kept at the church of St Gregory at Sudbury in Suffolk, which Sudbury partly rebuilt.^[4] With his brother, John of Chertsey, he also founded a college in Sudbury; he also did some building at Canterbury. His father was Nigel Theobald, and he is sometimes called Simon Theobald or Tybald.

Notes

^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 258
^ ^a ^b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 233
^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 86
^ St Gregory, Sudbury (Suffolk Churches) accessed 27 May 2008

References

Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Scrope of Bolton	Lord Chancellor 1380–1381	Succeeded by Hugh Segrave (Keeper of the Great Seal)
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Michael Northburgh	Bishop of London 1361–1375	Succeeded by William Courtenay
Preceded by William Whittlesey	Archbishop of Canterbury 1375–1381	Succeeded by William Courtenay

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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[Handbook258-1] Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 258

[Handbook233-2] Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 233

[Handbook86-3] Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 86

[4] St Gregory, Sudbury (Suffolk Churches) accessed 27 May 2008

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Conquest to Reformation	Lanfranc Anselm Ralph d'Escures William de Corbeil Theobald of Bec Thomas Becket Roger de Bailleul Richard of Dover Baldwin of Forde Reginald Fitz Jocelin Hubert Walter Reginald John de Gray Stephen Langton Walter d'Eynsham Richard le Grant Ralph Neville John of Sittingbourne John Blund Edmund of Abingdon Boniface William Chillenden Robert Kilwardby Robert Burnell John Peckham Robert Winchelsey Thomas Cobham Walter Reynolds Simon Mepeham John de Stratford John de Ufford Thomas Bradwardine Simon Islip William Edington Simon Langham William Whittlesey Simon Sudbury William Courtenay Thomas Arundel Roger Walden Thomas Arundel Henry Chichele John Stafford John Kemp Thomas Bourchier John Morton Thomas Langton Henry Deane William Warham Thomas Cranmer Reginald Pole
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Post-Conquest	William the Norman Hugh d'Orevalle Maurice Richard de Belmeis I Gilbert Universalis Anselm (quashed) Robert de Sigello Richard de Belmeis II Gilbert Foliot Richard FitzNeal William of Sainte-Mère-Église Eustace of Fauconberg Roger Niger Fulk Basset Henry Wingham Richard Talbot Henry of Sandwich John Chishull Fulke Lovell Richard Gravesend Ralph Baldock Gilbert Segrave Richard Newport Stephen Gravesend Richard de Wentworth Ralph Stratford Michael Northburgh Simon Sudbury William Courtenay Robert Braybrooke Roger Walden Nicholas Bubwith Richard Clifford John Kemp William Grey Robert FitzHugh Robert Gilbert Thomas Kempe Richard Hill Thomas Savage William Warham William Barons Richard FitzJames Cuthbert Tunstall
During the Reformation	John Stokesley Edmund Bonner (1st) Nicholas Ridley Edmund Bonner (2nd)
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