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John Briggs wrote:
>
> Perusing the edition of the Pontifical of Christopher Bainbridge,
> Archbishop of York, I discover that his suffragan was John Hatton,
> Archdeacon of Nottingham and Bishop of Negropont. Wasn't that rather
> unusual? I was under the impression that in late medieval England
> suffragan bishops were usually Irish bishops - or rather, that
> recourse was had to someone whose nominal see was in Ireland, but who
> rarely went near the place. Are there any other instances of having
> one of your own clergy appointed to a titular see?
OK, to answer my own question: I don't have access to sources that people
have mentioned, so I have had recourse to a crude online version of Stubbs'
Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum. It would appear that Hatton was appointed
Prebendary of Givendale (York) in 1503; and Prebendary of Ulleskelf in 1504.
He was appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1506, having apparently become
Bishop of Negropont (in partibus infidelium) the same year. He was
appointed as Suffragan by Bainbridge when he became Archbishop of York in
1508, but it seems to me likely that Hatton had been Suffragan to
Bainbridge's predecessor, Thomas Savage. (Just to complicate matters,
Bainbridge had been Dean of York from 1503 to 1505, so would have known
Hatton.) Hatton was succeeded as Bishop of Negropont in 1515 (he died in
1516) by Richard Wilson, Prior of Drax, who was Suffragan to Thomas Wolsley
1515-18. I still see him as an "in-house" appointment, which doesn't seem to
be the general pattern.
The use of Suffragans in partibus infidelium becomes increasingly popular
from 1340 until 1534, when following the Act of Supremacy they are
superseded by the Suffragan Bishops Act [still in force - authorising their
appointment and allowing them to take the titles of towns within the
diocese], England having lost contact with the "partes infidelium"...
John Briggs
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