Robert Chichele

Sir Robert Chichele (sometimes shown as Chicheley or other variations) was a 15th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.[1]

Robert Chichele was the son of Thomas Chichele of Higham Ferrers and Agnes Pyncheon, and the brother of Henry Chichele, the Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford. Another brother, William, served as Sheriff of London.[2] Robert served as an alderman for Aldgate Ward, before being elected twice as Lord Mayor of London, in 1411 and again in 1421. He received letters patent ordering him (along with then-mayor Richard Whittington) to seek out and imprison any Lollards within the city.[3]

Robert was buried in the church of St Mary Bothaw.[4] Through his daughter, Phillippa, he was an ancestor of Sir Andrew Judde, a later Lord Mayor of London.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Lord Mayors of the City of London from 1189" (PDF). www.citybridgetrust.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Burke, John, and Burke, Bernard "General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland"
  3. ↑ Riddy, Felicity "Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts" pg. 91
  4. ↑ Newcourt, Richard (1708). Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense 1. London. pp. 438 –9.
  5. ↑ Cox, John Edmund "The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London" pg. 247
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