John Kemp

John Cardinal Kemp

John Kemp (* 1380 in Ollantigh, Wye , Kent , † March 22, 1454 in Canterbury ) was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor . He was also Bishop of Chichester , London and Rochester , Archbishop of York and Cardinal .

Life

Kemp became a church attorney , later entered the royal service and was appointed governor of Normandy . From 1418 to 1421 he was lord seal keeper . In 1419 he became Bishop of Rochester and soon afterwards in 1421 first Bishop of Chichester and a few months later Bishop of London. Kemp was sponsored by Cardinal Henry Beaufort ; In 1426 he took over his position as Lord Chancellor of England and in the same year became Archbishop of York . In 1432 he had to resign from the Chancellery, but he was still politically active and worked for peace with France . On December 18, 1439 he was elevated to cardinal priest Santa Balbina by Pope Eugene IV . In 1450 Kemp was again Lord Chancellor and two years later Archbishop of Canterbury .

literature

• Edwin Burton:  John Kemp . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 8, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1910.
• The new Encyclopædia Britannica . in 32 volumes. 15th edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago 2007, ISBN 1-59339-292-3 , pp. 795 .

Web links

• Kempe, John. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 24, 2017.
• Project Requiem

Individual evidence

1. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 92
2. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 249
3. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 217
4. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 240
5. ^ ^{A b} Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 85
6. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 265
7. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 211

predecessor	Office	successor
John Stafford	Archbishop of Canterbury 1452-1454	Thomas Bourchier
John Stafford	Lord Chancellor of England 1450–1454	Richard Neville
Henry Beaufort	Lord Chancellor of England 1426–1432	John Stafford
Henry Bowet	Archbishop of York 1426–1452	William Booth
Richard de Clifford	Bishop of London 1421–1426	William Gray
Henry Ware	Bishop of Chichester 1421	Thomas Polton
Richard Young	Bishop of Rochester 1419–1421	John Langdon