9 September 1361 A.D. Michael Northburgh Passes—75th Bishop of London; Formerly, Prebendary of Lichfield (1342-1354)
9 September 1361
A.D. Michael
Northburgh Passes—75th Bishop of London; Formerly, Prebendary of
Lichfield (1342-1354); Elected 22 Apr 1354; Received Temporalites 23 Jun 1354;
Died in Office 9 Sept 1361
Michael Northburgh
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Michael Northburgh
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Roman Catholic
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1354–1361
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9 September 1361
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Michael
Northburgh, otherwise Michael de Northburgh (Northborough), was the Bishop of London between 1354 and his death in 1361. He was the nephew of Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield.
Northburgh's uncle's influence
enabled him to be appointed Archdeacon of Chester in 1341 (until forced to resign in 1342)[1] and Archdeacon of Suffolk in 1347 (until 1353)[2] before he had been ordained into higher orders. Whilst archdeacon he became
Rector of Pulham St. Mary (1341) and acquired a large number of canonries.[3] He occupied the office of Lord Privy Seal between 1350 and 1354.[2]
Northburgh was elected Bishop
of London on 22 April 1354 and consecrated on 12 July 1355.[4] His most lasting achievement as bishop was in helping to found the Charterhouse. He bought land from Sir Walter de Manny and by his will left £2000 'for the foundation of a
House according to the ritual of the Carthusian order in a place commonly called "Newchirchehawe", where there is
a church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Northburgh accompanied King Edward III of England on the English expedition to France which included
the Battle of Crécy(1346) and
acted as royal clerk, writing an eyewitness account in a newsletter from the
English camp, and giving the French casualties as 1,542 "without reckoning
the commons and foot-soldiers".
Northburgh died of the plague
on 9 September 1361.[4] In his will he left valuable books and artifacts to the illegitimate
Michael Northborough, a future Archdeacon of Colchester.
Notes
1.
Jump up^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 10:
Coventry and Lichfield diocese". Retrieved 2012-01-28.
3.
Jump up^ "Northburgh, Michael (c.1300–1361), diplomat and
bishop of London". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
References
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Haines, Roy. "Northburgh, Michael (c.1300–1361), diplomat
and bishop of London". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20324. (Subscription
or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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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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