Edmund Lacey

Edmund Lacey
Bishop of Exeter
Church Catholic
Appointed 15 July 1420
Term ended 18 September 1455
Predecessor John Catterick
Successor John Hales
Orders
Consecration 18 July 1417
Personal details
Died 18 September 1455
Previous post Bishop of Hereford

Edmund Lacey (or Lacy; died 1455) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.

Lacey was educated at University College, Oxford, where he was a mature commoner, then Fellow, and subsequently Master of the College from 1398 until around 1401.[1] The College prospered and developed under him, as well as under John Appleton and John Castell who followed him.[2][2]

In 1401 Lacey was appointed Canon of the ninth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1417.[3]

Around 1414 Lacey was appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal, accompanying King Henry V to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.[4] He was elected to the see of Hereford between 21 January and 17 February 1417 and consecrated on 18 April 1417.[5] He was then translated to the see of Exeter on 15 July 1420.[6] While bishop at Exeter, Lacey promoted the cult of the Archangel Raphael, proclaiming the feast in his diocese in 1443, and working throughout England to institute the cult.[7]

Lacey died on 18 September 1455.[6]

Citations

  1. Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. pages 45, 60, 73–74, 529.
  2. 1 2 Carr, William, University College, Routledge, 1998. ISBN 978-0-415-18632-2. Chapter IV, The Fifteenth Century: Early Benefactors, Buildings, and Further Statutes (pages 53–73).
  3. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  4. George Oliver, Edmund Lucy. In Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Exeter: William Roberts, Broadgate, 1861.
  5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 251
  6. 1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
  7. Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 171

References

Academic offices
Preceded by
Thomas Duffield
Master of University College, Oxford
1398–c.1401
Succeeded by
John Appleton
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Robert Mascall
Bishop of Hereford
1417–1420
Succeeded by
Thomas Polton
Preceded by
John Catterick
Bishop of Exeter
1420–1455
Succeeded by
John Hales
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