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12 April 1443 A.D.   Henry Chicheley Dies—62 nd of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury: Lawyer, Diplomat, & Lollard-Heresy-Hunter Hind, George. "Henry Chichele." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03656a.htm .   Accessed 26 May 2014. Henry Chichele   (Or Chicheley) Archbishop of Canterbury , b. at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England , 1362; d. at Oxford , 12 April, 1441. He was the son of Thomas Chichele, a yeoman, and Agnes, daughter of William Pyncheon. Eucated by William of Wykeham at St. John the Baptist's College, Winchester , he passed from there to New College, Oxford . He took the degree of B.C.L. in 1389-90, and the degree of LL.D. in 1396. Llanvarchall, in the Diocese of St. Asaph , was his first living, and he held in succession the rectory of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, the archdeaconry of Dorset, together with a prebend of Salisbury (1397), a canonry in the c...

12 April 1443 A.D.   Henry Chicheley Dies—62 nd of 105 Archbishops: Lawyer, Diplomat, & Lollard-Heresy-Hunter Henry Chichele (also Checheley ) ( c. 1364 – 12 April 1443), English archbishop , founder of All Souls College, Oxford , was born at Higham Ferrers , Northamptonshire , in 1363 or 1364. Chicheley told Pope Eugene IV , in 1443, in asking leave to retire from the archbishopric, that he was in his eightieth year. Contents   1 Early life 1.1 Education 2 Career 2.1 Legal career 2.2 Royal service 2.3 Later career 3 Relations with the papacy 4 Death 5 Citations 6 References Early life Chichele was the third and youngest son of Thomas Chicheley, who appears in 1368 in still extant town records of Higham Ferrers as a suitor in the mayor's court, and in 1381–1382, and again in 1384–1385, was mayor : in fact, for a dozen years he and Henry Barton, schoolmaster...