John Bokyngham

John Bokyngham
Bishop of Lincoln
Flagstone in Canterbury Cathedral memorializing Bokyngham
Church	Catholic
Elected	between 20 August 1362 and 4 October 1362
Term ended	resigned between March and June 1398
Predecessor	John Gynwell
Successor	Henry Beaufort
Orders
Consecration	25 June 1363
Personal details
Died	10 March 1399

John Bokyngham (or Buckingham; died 1399) was a medieval treasury official and Bishop of Lincoln.

Administrative career

Bokyngham entered the treasury and was appointed Chamberlain of the Exchequer in 1347 (until 1350), Keeper of the Great Wardrobe in 1350 (until 1353), Keeper of the (Household) Wardrobe in 1353 (until 1357) and a Baron of the Exchequer in 1357 (until 1360).^[1]

Bokyngham was keeper of the seal of Thomas, regent in England from March to July 1360. He was then appointed Lord Privy Seal in 1360 and held that office until 1363.^[2]

Ecclesiastical career

Bokyngham was collated Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1349 and then appointed Dean of Lichfield from 1350 to 1363. He was also held the position of Archdeacon of Northampton from 1351 to 1363. He was elected bishop of Lincoln between 20 August 1362 and 4 October 1362 and was consecrated on 25 June 1363. He resigned the see between March and June 1398, and died on 10 March 1399.^[3]

Bokyngham's diocese, which included Oxford and Lutterworth, was the headquarters of the Lollard movement. The bishop attempted to stop Swynderby's preaching, and managed to turn him out of the chapel of St. John the Baptist. Swynderby was, however, upheld by the people. He used two great stones which lay outside the chapel as a pulpit, and declared that as long as he had the good will of the people he would 'preach in the king's highway in spite of the bishop's teeth.' In May 1382 Bokyngham attended the synod called the council of 'the earthquake,' held in London by Archbishop Courtenay, in which the propositions ascribed to the Wycliffite preachers were pronounced heretical.^[4]

While bishop, Bokyngham outlawed the veneration of a cross at Rippingale. However, the veneration continued and the advocates of the cult appealed to the papacy.^[5]

Citations

↑ Tout, Thomas F. Chapters in the Administrative History of Mediaeval England. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 94
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 256
↑ Hunt 1886.
↑ Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 255

References

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.
Swanson, R. N. (1995). Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37950-4.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1886). "Bokyngham, John". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Political offices
Preceded by John Winwick	Lord Privy Seal 1360–1363	Succeeded by William of Wykeham
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by John Gynwell	Bishop of Lincoln 1362–1398	Succeeded by Henry Beaufort

Bishops of Lincoln

High Medieval	Remigius de Fécamp Robert Bloet Alexander Robert de Chesney Geoffrey Plantagenet Walter de Coutances Hugh of Avalon William de Blois Hugh of Wells Robert Grosseteste Henry of Lexington Richard of Gravesend Oliver Sutton

Late Medieval	John Dalderby Anthony Bek Henry Burghersh Thomas Bek John Gynwell John Bokyngham Henry Beaufort Philip Repyngdon Richard Fleming William Grey William Alnwick Marmaduke Lumley John Chadworth Thomas Rotherham John Russell

Early modern	William Smyth Thomas Wolsey William Atwater John Longland Henry Holbeach John Taylor John White Thomas Watson Nicholas Bullingham Thomas Cooper William Wickham William Chaderton William Barlow Richard Neile George Montaigne John Williams Thomas Winniffe Robert Sanderson Benjamin Lany William Fuller Thomas Barlow Thomas Tenison James Gardiner William Wake Edmund Gibson Richard Reynolds John Thomas John Green Thomas Thurlow

Late modern	George Pretyman (later Pretyman Tomline) Hon George Pelham John Kaye John Jackson Christopher Wordsworth Edward King Edward Hicks William Swayne Nugent Hicks Aylmer Skelton Leslie Owen Maurice Harland Kenneth Riches Simon Phipps Bob Hardy John Saxbee Christopher Lowson

Deans of Lichfield

Medieval	Stephen Seagrave Roger de Convenis John Garssia Richard FitzRalph John of Thoresby Simon de Brisele John Bokyngham William de Manton Laurence de Ibstock Anthony Rous Francis de Teobaldeschi William Pakington Thomas de Stretton Robert Wolveden John Verney Thomas Heywood

Early modern	John Yotton Ralph Colyngwood James Denton Richard Sampson Henry Williams John Ramridge Laurence Nowell George Boleyn James Montague William Tooker Walter Curle Augustine Lindsell John Warner Samuel Fell Griffin Higgs William Paul Thomas Wood Matthew Smallwood Lancelot Addison William Binckes Jonathan Kimberley William Walmesley Nicholas Penny John Addenbrooke Baptist Proby

Late modern	John Woodhouse Henry Howard William Champneys Edward Bickersteth Herbert Luckock Henry Savage Frederic Iremonger William MacPherson George Holderness John Lang Tom Wright Michael Yorke Adrian Dorber Pete Wilcox (Acting)

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