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* {{cite book |author=Coleman, Janet |editor= Piero Boitani|title=Chaucer and the Italian Trecento: English Culture in the Fourteenth Century|publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1985 |isbn=19830521313503 }}

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* {{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |coauthors=Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}

* {{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |coauthors=Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}

* {{cite book|author= Stephens W.R.W.|year=1876|title=Memorials of the South Saxon See and Cathedral Church of Chichester|publisher= Richard Bentley and Sons|location=London}}

* {{cite book|author= Stephens W.R.W.|year=1876|title=Memorials of the South Saxon See and Cathedral Church of Chichester|publisher= Richard Bentley and Sons|location=London}}


Revision as of 16:31, 8 May 2012

William Lenn
Bishop of Worcester
ChurchCatholic
SeeDiocese of Worcester
In office1368–1373
PredecessorWilliam Wittlesey
SuccessorHenry Wakefield
Personal details
Died18 November 1373
Previous post(s)Bishop of Chichester
Dean of Chichester

William Lenn (also Lenneorde Lynn; died 1373) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Worcester. The name Lenn was the old name for LynninNorfolk.[1]

Lenn went to Rome in his early life and became a doctor of canon law. He was subsequently made an auditor of causes, in the holy court, by Pope Urban V.[1][2]

In 1356 Lenn was made dean of Chichester Cathedral, then after the death of Bishop Stratford he was selected for the see of Chichester on 16 May 1362, and was consecrated about 18 August 1362.[3]

Lenn's tenure at Chichester was quite short, but during that time he managed to get into a quarrel with the earl of Arundel, Stephens suggests that it was probably a dispute over land.[1] It seems that the bishop procured a citation from Pope Urban V ordering the earl to appear before a court, in Rome, to answer the charges laid against him.[1] The earl treated the summons with contempt and refused to go.[1] What the bishop was trying to do was seen as a violation of both the Statute of Praemunire and the canon law of England. The King, Edward III, was angry at the insult and summoned the bishop to attend the king's court, to account for his actions.[1] The bishop, however, was in Rome at the time but he was convicted in his absence, and all his goods and chattels seized, by the crown.[1]

Lenn was translated to the see of Worcester on 11 October 1368 [4] He died of a stroke, in that office on 18 November 1373, as he mounted a horse to go to London to attend Parliament.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Stephens Memorials pp. 117-118
  • ^ Coleman English Culture pp. 50-51 ...the most important position at the end of the fourteenth-early fifteenth century was called the abbreviator of the papal chancery. In the early fourteenth century the corresponding post was "auditor of causes of the apostolic palace". The way up was via the notariate and writerships of the chancery. These posts were dominated by English canon lawyers.
  • ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239
  • ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 279
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    Preceded by

    Robert Stratford

    Bishop of Chichester
    1362–1368
    Succeeded by

    William Reade

    Preceded by

    William Wittlesey

    Bishop of Worcester
    1368–1373
    Succeeded by

    Walter Lyghe

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