Ralph Ergham

Ralph Ergham
Bishop of Bath and Wells
Church	Catholic
Appointed	3 April 1388
Term ended	10 April 1400
Predecessor	Walter Skirlaw
Successor	Richard Clifford
Orders
Consecration	9 December 1375
Personal details
Died	10 April 1400
Previous post	Bishop of Salisbury

Ralph Ergham (or Erghum; died 1400) was the English bishop of Salisbury from 1375 to 1388, and then bishop of Bath and Wells from 1388 to 1400.

Ergham was Chancellor of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster^[1] from 1373 to 1377. On 12 October 1375 he was selected to be Bishop of Salisbury, and was consecrated on 9 December.^[2] On 3 April 1388 he was transferred to the see of Bath and Wells.^[3] Ergham was a member of King Richard II's first council, representing John of Gaunt's interests.^[4] He died on 10 April 1400.^[3]

Citations

1. Hospitals of St Mary Magdalen, Preston accessed on 24 August 2007
2. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 270
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 228
4. McKisack The Fourteenth Century p. 400

References

• Hospitals of St Mary Magdalen, Preston
• 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.
• McKisack, May The Fourteenth Century