John Walton (bishop)
John Walton, C.R.S.A., (d. ca. 1490) was an English canon regular who became an Archbishop of Dublin.
Life
In 1452 Walton was made Abbot of Osney, and in 1472 was elected as Archbishop of Dublin, and consecrated in England. In 1478 he managed through the Irish Parliament the restitution of some manors alienated by his predecessors. During his tenure Pope Sixtus IV authorized the re-establishment of the unsuccessful University of Dublin, but the plan was not carried out.[1]
Walton kept out of politics, and was overshadowed by his suffragan, William Sherwood, Bishop of Meath. In 1484, blind and in bad heath, he resigned the archbishopric. He retired to his manor of Swords, Dublin. On 17 March 1489 he emerged to preach a sermon for the Feast day of St. Patrick before the Lord Deputy at his former cathedral. He died soon afterwards, leaving bequests to Osney Abbey, where he had hoped to be buried, were his death to have occurred in England.[1]
Notes
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Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Walton, John (d.1490?)". Dictionary of National Biography 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Walton, John (d.1490?)". Dictionary of National Biography 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.