William de Wickwane

William de Wickwane
Archbishop of York
Elected	22 June 1279
Installed	25 December 1279
Term ended	27 August 1285
Predecessor	Walter Giffard
Successor	John le Romeyn
Other posts	prebendary in York
Orders
Consecration	17 September 1279 by Pope Nicholas III
Personal details
Died	27 August 1285 Pontigny Abbey Burgundy
Buried	Pontigny Abbey

William de Wickwane (died 1285) was Archbishop of York, between the years 1279 and 1285.

Life

Wickwane's background is unknown, as is his place of education, but he was referred to as magister so he probably attended a university.^[1] He was prebendary of North Newald in Yorkshire by 1265 and also held the prebend of Ripon.^[2] He was elected Archbishop of York on 22 June 1279, and consecrated on 17 September 1279^[3] by Pope Nicholas III at Viterbo.^[4] On his return to England, he had his primatial cross carried in front of him through the see of Canterbury, thus reviving a centuries-old controversy between York and Canterbury. He was enthroned at York Minster on Christmas Day 1279. The matter of the cross involved Wickwane in a dispute with Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury.^[1]

While archbishop, in 1281 Wickwane tried make an archiepiscopal visitation of the cathedral chapter of Durham, but was forcibly prevented by the cathedral chapter, after which Wickwane excommunicated the chapter and Robert of Holy Island, the Bishop of Durham, and placed the entire diocese of Durham under interdict. The chapter and bishop appealed to Rome, and the case dragged on for six years before eventually being settled by a compromise.^[5] He also wrote to Bogo de Clare while the later was still a canon of York Minster, taking Bogo to task for the state of the vestments and other liturgical items in the cathedral.^[6] Wickwane also attempted to keep clergy who kept concubines from performing clerical functions in the diocese of York.^[7]

Wickwane died on 26 August or 27 August 1285^[3] at Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy^[4] while on his way to the papal curia to plead his case against the monks of Durham. He was buried at the Cistercian abbey there in Pontigny.^[1]

Citations

1 2 3 Dobson "Wickwane, William de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Chancellors
1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 282
1 2 Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops
↑ Lawrence "Thirteenth Century" English Church and the Papacy pp. 143-144
↑ Moorman Church Life p. 202
↑ Moorman Church Life p. 235

References

Dobson, R. B. (2004). "Wickwane, William de (d. 1285)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29351.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Greenway, Diana E. (1999). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
Greenway, Diana E. (1999). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Chancellors. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
Lawrence, C. H. (1999) [1965]. "The Thirteenth Century". In Lawrence, C. H. The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages (Reprint ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. pp. 117–156. ISBN 0-7509-1947-7.
Moorman, John R. H. (1955). Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century (Revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 213820968.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Walter Giffard	Archbishop of York 1279–1285	Succeeded by John le Romeyn

Bishops and Archbishops of York

Pre-Reformation Bishops	Paulinus Chad Wilfrid Bosa John of Beverley Wilfrid II

Pre-Reformation Archbishops	Egbert Æthelbert Eanbald I Eanbald II Wulfsige Wigmund Wulfhere Æthelbald Hrotheweard Wulfstan I Oscytel Edwald Oswald Ealdwulf Wulfstan II Ælfric Puttoc Cynesige Ealdred Thomas of Bayeux Gerard Thomas II Thurstan William FitzHerbert Henry Murdac William FitzHerbert Roger de Pont L'Évêque Geoffrey Plantagenet Simon Langton Walter de Gray Sewal de Bovil Godfrey Ludham William Langton Bonaventure Walter Giffard William de Wickwane John le Romeyn Henry of Newark Thomas of Corbridge William Greenfield William Melton William Zouche John of Thoresby Alexander Neville Thomas Arundel Robert Waldby Richard le Scrope Thomas Langley Robert Hallam Henry Bowet Philip Morgan Richard Fleming John Kemp William Booth George Neville Lawrence Booth Thomas Rotherham Thomas Savage Christopher Bainbridge Thomas Wolsey

Post-Reformation Archbishops	Edward Lee Robert Holgate Nicholas Heath Thomas Young Edmund Grindal Edwin Sandys John Piers Matthew Hutton Tobias Matthew George Montaigne Samuel Harsnett Richard Neile John Williams Accepted Frewen Richard Sterne John Dolben Thomas Lamplugh John Sharp Sir William Dawes Bt Lancelot Blackburne Thomas Herring Matthew Hutton John Gilbert Robert Hay Drummond William Markham Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Thomas Musgrave Charles Longley William Thomson William Magee William Maclagan Cosmo Lang William Temple Cyril Garbett Michael Ramsey Donald Coggan Stuart Blanch John Habgood David Hope John Sentamu

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William de Wickwane

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