Henry Burghersh

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Henry Burghersh (* 1292 ; † December 4, 1340 ) was an English bishop and chancellor and took on important diplomatic tasks for the English King Edward III in his later years .

Life

Henry Burghersh was a younger son of Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh († 1306) and a nephew of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere . He received his training in France.

On May 27, 1320 he was due to the influence of his uncle by Pope John XXII. appointed Bishop of Lincoln , notwithstanding the fact that the chapter there had already appointed another successor to the vacant bishopric. He received his episcopal ordination on July 20, 1320. After the execution of Badlesmere in 1322, Burghersh's property was confiscated by the English King Edward II and the Pope asked to remove him from his office. In the spring of 1326 his possessions were restored, but this did not prevent Burghersh from publicly supporting Isabella of France , Edward's wife, in her ultimately successful efforts to depose her husband.

He served Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer , who in fact exercised the affairs of state for the king, who was still a minor, from 1327 to 1328 as Lord Treasurer and then until 1330 as Chancellor . His candidacy for the seat of Archbishop in Canterbury failed, however, and in 1330, after Isabella's disempowerment, he was first removed from office and imprisoned. But he was soon able to obtain his release and served Edward III. from 1334 to 1337 again as Lord Treasurer. During this time he gained the trust of the young king and, in view of the growing tensions between France and England, was one of the proponents of a confrontational course towards the French crown. From 1337 he was by Edward III. repeatedly entrusted with extremely important diplomatic missions to Flanders . Among other things, he was involved in the formation of the Anglo-Flemish alliance at the beginning of the Hundred Years War and in 1340 accompanied Edward's campaign to Tournai . He died in Ghent that same year .

literature

  • EB Fryde (et al.): Handbook of British Chronology. 3rd revised edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996. ISBN 0-521-56350-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Fryde et al., P. 255
  2. ↑ Fryde et al., P. 86
personal data
SURNAME Burghersh, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English bishop and chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH 1292
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1340