Richard of Ilchester

Richard of Ilchester
Bishop of Winchester
Church	Catholic
Elected	1 May 1173
Term ended	22 December 1188
Predecessor	Henry of Blois
Successor	Godfrey de Lucy
Orders
Consecration	October 1174
Personal details
Died	22 December 1188
Previous post	Archdeacon of Poitiers

Richard of Ilchester (died 22 December 1188), also called Richard of Toclyve or Richard of Toclive, was a medieval English statesman and prelate.

Life

Richard was born in the diocese of Bath, where he obtained preferment. Early in the reign of Henry II, however, he is found acting as a clerk in the King's court, probably under Thomas Becket, and he was one of the officials who assisted Henry in carrying out his great judicial and financial reforms. Richard was the first King's Remembrancer, the oldest judicial office still in existence in England, in 1154.

In 1162, or 1163, Richard was appointed archdeacon of Poitiers,^[1] but he passed most of his time in England, although in the next two or three years he visited Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I in the interests of the English king. He was one of the persons whom the Constitutions of Clarendon were addressed, along with Geoffrey Ridel and Richard de Luci.^[2] For promising to support Frederick against Alexander he was excommunicated by Becket in 1166.^[3] Before this event, however, Richard had been appointed a baron of the exchequer.^[4] One of Richard's duties was to oversee the making of the Pipe rolls, as well as keeping the treasurer from falling asleep. He also was responsible for an innovation in record keeping by the Exchequer, ordering a record kept of every summons made by the Exchequer. This system, however, was discontinued later.^[4]

Although totally immersed in secular business Richard received several rich ecclesiastical offices including treasurer of the diocese of Poitiers, and 1 May 1173 he was elected bishop of Winchester,^[1] being consecrated at Canterbury in October 1174.^[5] Richard still continued to serve Henry II. In 1176 he was appointed justiciary and seneschal of Normandy, and was given full control of all the royal business in the duchy. He died on 22 December 1188,^[5] and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Richard owes his surname to the fact that Henry II granted him a mill at Ilchester.

While bishop Richard gave an endowment to a hospital in Winchester, and allowed it to double the number of poor that it fed.^[6]

Richard probably was the father of the brothers Richard Poore, who became Bishop of Durham, and Herbert Poore, who became Bishop of Salisbury.^[7]

Citations

1 2 British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on 2 November 2007
↑ Knowles, et al. "Henry II's Supplement" English Historical Review p. 759
↑ Dunning, Robert (2005). A Somerset Miscellany. Tiverton: Somerset Books. pp. 28–29. ISBN 0-86183-427-5.
1 2 Clanchy From Memory to Written Record p. 63
1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 276
↑ Turner "Religious Patronage" Albion p. 5
↑ British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007
British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on 2 November 2007
Clanchy, C. T. (1993). From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307 (Second ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-16857-7.
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.
Knowles, M. D.; Duggan, Anne J.; Brooke, C. N. L. (October 1972). "Henry II's Supplement to the Constitutions of Clarendon". The English Historical Review 87 (345): 757–771. doi:10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLV.757.
Turner, Ralph V. (Spring 1986). "Religious Patronage of Angevin Royal Administrators, c. 1170–1239". Albion 18 (1): 1–21. doi:10.2307/4048700. JSTOR 4048700.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Henry of Blois	Bishop of Winchester 1173–1188	Succeeded by Godfrey de Luci

Bishops of Winchester

Early Medieval	Wine Leuthere Hædde Daniel Hunfrith Cyneheard Æthelheard Ecgbald Dudd Cyneberht Ealhmund Wigthegn Herefrith (disputed) Eadmund (disputed) Eadhun Helmstan Swithun Ealhferth Tunbeorht Denewulf Frithestan Beornstan/Byrnstan ÆlfheahI ÆlfsigeI Beorhthelm ÆthelwoldI ÆlfheahII

High Medieval	Cenwulf ÆthelwoldII ÆlfsigeII Ælfwine Stigand Walkelin William Giffard Henry of Blois Richard of Ilchester Godfrey de Luci Richard Poore Peter des Roches Ralph Neville William de Raley Aymer de Valence Andrew of London William de Taunton John Gervais Nicholas of Ely Robert Burnell Richard de la More John of Pontoise

Late Medieval	Henry Woodlock John Sandale Rigaud of Assier John de Stratford Adam Orleton William Edington William of Wykeham Henry Beaufort William Waynflete Peter Courtenay Thomas Langton

Early modern	Richard Foxe Thomas Wolsey Stephen Gardiner John Ponet Stephen Gardiner John White Robert Horne John Watson Thomas Cooper William Wickham William Day Thomas Bilson James Montague Lancelot Andrewes Richard Neile Walter Curle Brian Duppa George Morley Peter Mews Jonathan Trelawny Charles Trimnell Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly John Thomas Brownlow North

Late modern	George Pretyman Tomline Charles Sumner Samuel Wilberforce Harold Browne Anthony Thorold Randall Davidson Herbert Ryle Edward Talbot Frank Woods Cyril Garbett Mervyn Haigh Alwyn Williams Falkner Allison John Taylor Colin James Michael Scott-Joynt Tim Dakin

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