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FLEMING, RICHARD (d. 1431)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLEMING, See also:RICHARD (d. 1431) , See also:bishop of . See also:Lincoln, and founder of Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, was See also:born at Crofton in See also:Yorkshire. He was descended from a See also:good See also:family, and was educated at University College, Oxford. Having taken his degrees, he was made See also:prebendary of See also:York in 1406, and the next See also:year was junior See also:proctor of the university. About this See also:time he became an ardent Wycliffite, winning over many persons, some of high See also:rank, to the See also:side of the 'reformer, and incurring the censure of See also:Archbishop See also:Arundel. He afterwards became one of Wycliffe's most determined opponents. Before 1415 he was instituted to the rectory of See also:Boston in See also:Lincolnshire, and in 1420 he was consecrated bishop of Lincoln. In 1428-1429 he attended the See also:councils of See also:Pavia and See also:Siena, and in the presence of the See also:pope, See also:Martin V., made an eloquent speech in vindication of his native See also:country, and in eulogy of the papacy. It was probably on this occasion that he was named See also:chamberlain to the pope. To Bishop Fleming was entrusted the See also:execution of the See also:decree of the See also:council for the See also:exhumation and. burning of Wycliffe's remains. The see of York being vacant, the pope conferred it on Fleming; but the See also:king (See also:Henry V.) refused to confirm the See also:appointment.

In 1427 Fleming obtained the royal See also:

licence empowering him to found a college at Oxford for the See also:special purpose of training up disputants against Wycliffe's See also:heresy. He died at See also:Sleaford, on the 26th. of See also:January 1431. Lincoln College was, however, completed by his trustees, and its endowments were afterwards augmented by various benefactors.

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