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ARUNDEL, THOMAS (1353-1414)

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ARUNDEL, See also:THOMAS (1353-1414) , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was the third son of See also:Richard Fitzalan, See also:earl of Arundel and See also:Warenne, by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of See also:Henry See also:Plantagenet, earl of See also:Lancaster. His See also:family was an old and influential one, and when Thomas entered the See also:church his preferment was rapid. In 1373 he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Taunton, and in See also:April 1374 was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Ely. During the See also:early years of the reign of See also:King Richard II. he was associated with the party led by Thomas, See also:duke of See also:Gloucester, Henry, earl of See also:Derby, afterwards King Henry IV., and his own See also:brother Richard, earl of Arundel, and in 1386 he was sent with Gloucester to Eltham to persuade Richard to return to See also:parliament. This See also:mission was successful, and Arundel was made See also:lord See also:chancellor in See also:place of See also:Michael de la See also:Pole, duke of See also:Suffolk, and assisted to make See also:peace between the king and the supporters of the See also:commission of regency. In April 1388 he was made archbishop of See also:York, and, when Richard declared himself of See also:age in 1389, he gave up the See also:office of chancellor, to which, however, he returned in 1391. During his second See also:tenure of this office he removed the courts of See also:justice from See also:London to York, but they were soon brought back to the See also:metropolis. In See also:September 1396 he was translated from York to Canterbury, and again resigned the office of chancellor. He began his new See also:rule by a vigorous See also:attempt to assert his rights, warned the citizens of London not to withhold See also:tithes, and decided appeals from the judgments of his suffragans during a thorough visitation of his See also:province. In See also:November 1396 he had officiated at the See also:marriage of Richard and See also:Isabella, daughter of See also:Charles VI., king of See also:France, and his fall was the sequel of the king's sudden attack upon the lords appellant in 1397. After the See also:arrest of Gloucester. See also:Warwick and Arundel, the archbishop was impeached by the See also:Commons with the king's consent, although Richard, who had not yet revealed his hostility, held out hopes of safety to him.

He was charged with assisting to procure the commission of regency in derogation of the royal authority, and See also:

sentence of banishment was passed, See also:forty days being given him during which to leave the See also:realm. Towards the end of 1397 he started for See also:Rome, and See also:Pope See also:Boniface IX., at the urgent See also:request of the king, translated him to the see of St See also:Andrews, a step which the pope afterwards confessed he repented bitterly. This See also:translation virtually deprived Arundel of all authority, as St Andrews didnot acknowledge Boniface. He then became associated with Henry of Lancaster, but did not return to See also:England before 1399, and the See also:account which See also:Froissart gives telling how he was sent by the Londoners to urge Henry to come and assume the See also:crown is thought to refer to his See also:nephew and namesake, Thomas, earl of Arundel. Landing with Henry at Ravenspur, he accompanied him to the See also:west. He took his place at once as archbishop of Canterbury, witnessed the See also:abdication of Richard in the See also:Towel of London, led the new king, Henry IV., to his See also:throne in presence of the peers, and crowned him on the 13th of See also:October 1399. The See also:main See also:work of his later years was the See also:defence of the church, and the suppression of See also:heresy. To put down the See also:Lollards, he called a See also:meeting of the See also:clergy, pressed on the See also:statute de haeretico comburendo, and passed sentence of degradation upon See also:William See also:Sawtrey. He resisted the attempt of the parliament of 1404 to disendow the church, but failed to induce Henry to See also:pardon Archbishop See also:Scrope in 1405. In 1407 he became chancellor for the See also:fourth See also:time, and in 1408 summoned a See also:council at See also:Oxford, which See also:drew up constitutions against the Lollards. These he published in See also:January 1409, and among them was one forbidding the translation of the See also:Bible into See also:English without the consent of the bishop of the See also:diocese, or of a provincial See also:synod. In 1411 he went on an See also:embassy abroad, and in 1412 became chancellor again, his return to See also:power being accompanied by a See also:change in the See also:foreign policy of Henry IV.

In 1397 he had sought to vindicate his right of visitation over the university of Oxford, but the dispute remained unsettled until 1411 when a See also:

bull was issued by Pope See also:John See also:XXIII. recalling one issued by Pope Boniface IX., which had exempted the university from the archbishop's authority. In 1413 he took a leading See also:part in the proceedings against See also:Sir John See also:Oldcastle, Lord See also:Cobham, and in the following See also:year he died on the 19th of See also:February, and was buried at Canter-See also:bury. A See also:legend of a later age tells how, just before his See also:death, he was struck dumb for preventing the See also:preaching of the word of See also:God. The See also:chief authorities are T. See also:Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, ed. by H. T. See also:Riley (London, 1863—1864) ; Eulogium historiarum sive temporis, ed. by F. S. See also:Haydon (London, 1858—1863) ; the See also:Monk of See also:Evesham, Historia vitae et regni Ricardi II., ed. by T. See also:Hearne (Oxford, 1729) ; W. F. See also:Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, vol. iv.

(London, 186o-1876).

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