Career Henry Chichele

1 career

1.1 legal career
1.2 royal service
1.3 later career

career
legal career

in hall-book, marked 1393/94, 1394/95, chicheley s name not appear. had left oxford , gone london practise advocate in principal ecclesiastical court, court of arches. rise rapid. on 8 february 1395/96 was, on commission several knights , clerks hear appeal in case of john molton, esquire v. john shawe, citizen of london, sir john cheyne kt., sitting constable of england in court of chivalry.

like other ecclesiastical lawyers , civil servants of day chichele paid ecclesiastical preferments. on 13 april 1396, obtained ratification of parsonage of st stephen s, walbrook, presented on 30 march abbot of colchester, no doubt through brother robert, restored church , increased endowment. in 1397 made archdeacon of dorset richard mitford, bishop of salisbury, litigation still going on in papal court until 27 june 1399, when pope extinguished suit, imposing perpetual silence on nicholas bubwith, master of rolls, opponent. in first year of henry iv chicheley parson of sherston, wiltshire, , prebendary of nantgwyly in college of abergwilly, wales; on 23 february 1401/2, called doctor of laws, pardoned bringing in, , allowed use, bull of pope providing him chancellorship of salisbury cathedral, , canonries in nuns churches of shaftesbury , wilton in diocese; , on 9 january 1402/3 archdeacon of salisbury.

royal service

this year chichele s brother robert senior sheriff of london. on 7 may 1404, pope boniface ix provided him prebend @ lincoln, notwithstanding held prebends @ salisbury, lichfield, st martins-le-grand , abergwyly, , living of brington. on 9 january 1405 found time attend court @ higham ferrers , admitted burgage there. in july 1405 chicheley began diplomatic career mission new roman pope innocent vii, professing desire end schism in papacy resignation, if french rival @ avignon likewise. next year, on 5 october 1406, sent sir john cheyne paris arrange lasting peace , marriage of prince henry french princess marie, frustrated becoming nun @ poissy next year.

in 1406 renewed efforts made stop schism, , chichele 1 of envoys sent new pope gregory xii. here utilised opportunities. on 31 august 1407 guy mone (he spelt , not mohun, , 1 of hampshire meons; there john mone of havant admitted winchester scholar in 1397), bishop of st david s, died, , on 12 october 1407 chichele pope provided bishopric of st david s. bull same day gave him right hold benefices bishopric. consecrated on 17 june 1408.

at siena in july 1408 , sir john cheyne, english envoys, received gregory xii special honour, , bishop repingdon of lincoln, ex-wycliffite, 1 of new batch of cardinals created on 18 september 1408, of gregory s cardinals having deserted him. these, benedict s revolting cardinals, summoned general council @ pisa. in november 1408 chichele @ westminster, when henry iv received cardinal archbishop of bordeaux , determined support cardinals @ pisa against both popes. in january 1409 chichele named bishop hallam of salisbury , prior of canterbury represent southern convocation @ council, opened on 25 march 1409, arriving on 24 april. obedience withdrawn both existing popes, , on 26 june new pope elected instead of them.

henry chichele became archbishop of canterbury in 1414.

chichele , other envoys received on return saviours of world; though result summed contemporary trischism instead of schism, , church giving 3 husbands instead of two. chichele became subject of leading case, court of kings bench deciding, after arguments reheard in 3 successive terms, not hold previous benefices bishopric, , that, spite of maxim papa potest omnia, papal bull not supersede law of land (year-book ii. h. iv. 37, 59, 79). accordingly, had resign livings , canonries wholesale (28 april 1410). as, however, had obtained bull (20 august 1409) enabling him appoint successors vacated preferments, including nephew william, though still undergraduate , not in orders, chancellorship of salisbury, , prebend @ lichfield, did not go empty away. in may 1410 went again on embassy france; on 11 september 1411 headed mission discuss henry v s marriage daughter of duke of burgundy; , again there in november.

in interval chichele found time visit diocese first time , enthroned @ st davids on 11 may 1411. english force under earl of arundel accompanied duke of burgundy paris in october 1411 , there defeated armagnacs, exploit revealed england weakness of french. on 30 november 1411 chichele, 2 other bishops , 3 earls , prince of wales, knelt king receive public administration. in high favour henry v shown being sent earl of warwick france in july 1413 conclude peace. after death of archbishop thomas arundel of canterbury king recommended him pope promotion archbishopric on 13 march 1414, signified royal assent of chichele s postulation on 23 march 1414, translated papal bull on 28 april 1414, , received pall without going rome on 24 july.

these dates important save chichele charge, versified shakespeare (henry v. act 1. sc. 2) hall s chronicle, of having tempted henry v conquest of france sake of diverting parliament disendowment of church. there no contemporary authority charge, seems appear first in redman s rhetorical history of henry v, written in 1540 eye political situation @ time, matter of fact, parliament @ leicester, in speeches supposed have been made, began on 30 april 1414 before chichele archbishop. rolls of parliament show not present in parliament @ all. moreover, parliament far pressing disendowment on petition of house of commons passed savage act against heresies commonly called lollardry aimed @ destruction of king , temporal estates, making lollards felons , ordering every justice of peace hunt down schools, conventicles, congregations , confederacies.

henry s tomb effigy


later career

in capacity of archbishop, chichele remained had been chiefly, lawyer , diplomatist. present @ siege of rouen, , king committed him negotiations surrender of city in january 1419 , marriage of katherine. crowned katherine @ westminster (20 february 1421), , on 6 december baptised child henry vi. of course persecutor of heretics. no 1 have attained or kept position of archbishop @ time without being so. presided @ trial of john claydon, skinner , citizen of london, after 5 years imprisonment @ various times had made public abjuration before late archbishop, arundel, found in possession of book in english called lanterne of light, contained heinous heresy principal cause of persecution of christians illegal retention priests of goods of world, , archbishops , bishops special seats of antichrist. relapsed heretic, left secular arm chichele.

on 1 july 1416 chichele directed half-yearly inquisition archdeacons hunt out heretics. on 12 february 1420 proceedings begun before him against william taylor, priest, had been fourteen years excommunicated heresy, , degraded , burnt saying prayers ought not addressed saints, god. striking contrast exhibited in october 1424, when stamford friar, john russell, had preached religious potest concumbere cum muliere , not mortally sin, sentenced retract doctrine.

further persecutions of whole batch of lollards took place in 1428. records of convocation in chichele s time curious mixture of persecutions heresy, largely consisted in attacks on clerical endowments, negotiations ministers of crown object of cutting down lowest level clerical contributions public revenues in respect of endowments. chichele tenacious of privileges of see, , involved him in constant struggle henry beaufort, bishop of winchester. in 1418, while henry v alive, protested against beaufort s being made cardinal , legate latere supersede legatine jurisdiction of canterbury. during regency, after henry vi s accession, beaufort successful, , in 1426 became cardinal , legate.

railings ( chichele gate ) @ tomb in canterbury cathedral