Richard Gravesend

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Richard Gravesend
Bishop of London
Electedabout 7 May 1280
Installed1 October 1280
Term ended9 December 1303
PredecessorFulke Lovell
SuccessorRalph Baldock
Other post(s)Prebendary of Totenhall
Orders
Consecration11 August 1280
Personal details
Died9 December 1303
DenominationCatholic

Richard Gravesend (died 1303) was a medieval Bishop of London.

Life

Gravesend held the prebend of Totenhall in the diocese of London.[1] He may have been Archdeacon of Essex and possibly Archdeacon of Northampton, but the identifications are not secure.[2]

Gravesend was elected about 7 May, confirmed 17 May and consecrated on 11 August 1280.[3] He was enthroned in London on 1 October 1280.[1]

Gravesend died on 9 December 1303.[3]

Citations

References

  • 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.
  • Greenway, Diana E. (1968). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Archdeacons: Essex. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 29 October 2007.
  • Greenway, Diana E. (1968). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 29 October 2007.

External links

  • Hutchinson, John (1892). "Richard of Gravesend" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 116.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of London
1280–1303
Succeeded by