John Ross (Bishop, Carlisle)

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John Ross (also Ros or Rosse ) († before May 4, 1332 ) was an English clergyman. From 1325 he was Bishop of Carlisle .

Origin and advancement as a clergyman

John Ross was the son of the cloth merchant Roger le Mercer and his wife Sibyl from Ross in Herefordshire . He later named himself after the city. Ross graduated from Oxford University with a master's degree and became a subdeacon at Hereford Cathedral before 1289 . In 1289, Bishop Swinfield appointed him his lawyer at the Curia in Rome. Before 1300, Ross had earned a Doctorate in Roman Law when he became a member of Archbishop Winchelsey's household . From 1300 to 1304 he served as Winchelsey's lawyer in Rome. Ross was still pursuing a legal career at the papal court when Bishop Swinfield asked him in 1306 to campaign for the canonization of Thomas of Hereford . At the time, Ross was a supporter of the British Dominican Thomas Jorz , Cardinal Priest of Santa Sabina , who demanded that Ross should get a canon at Hereford Cathedral. In 1310 Ross was still in the service of Jorz. 1308 Archbishop Winchelsey Ross had to Offizial the Archdiocese of Canterbury appointed, and in 1315 he served as chancellor of Archbishop Walter Reynolds . 1308 Ross was also archdeacon of Shropshire , to he received further benefices in Hereford , Wells , at Salisbury Cathedral and at the collegiate church of Wingham in Kent . In 1317 he resigned the office of archdeacon when Pope John XXII. appointed examiner of disputes at the papal court.

Bishop of Carlisle

After the death of Bishop John Halton , the cathedral chapter of Carlisle had elected William Airmyn as the new bishop of the Diocese of Carlisle on January 7, 1325 . Pope John XXII. However, determined Ross as the new bishop, who was ordained on February 24 by Bernardo de la Tour , Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum in Avignon as the new bishop. On March 25, the Pope ordered him to leave for his diocese, and on June 20, the English King Edward II Ross handed over the diocese's temporalities . On January 7, 1327, during a council meeting in Westminster , Ross was among the English bishops, along with Archbishop Melton of York and the Bishops Hythe of Rochester and Gravesend of London, who objected to his removal in view of the king's absence. Therefore, on January 13th, they did not agree to the proclamation of the heir to the throne Edward as the new king. Together with Melton, Ross did not attend the coronation of Edward III on February 2. part. This attitude probably meant that Ross, unlike other clergymen, received no government offices to defend the border with Scotland. Nor was Ross ever a member of any other royal commissions.

Ross’s register of documents is only partially preserved. After that he lived in the first half of 1330 on the episcopal estate of Rose in Cumberland , but later he lived in London or on the episcopal estate of Horncastle in Lincolnshire and Melbourne in Derbyshire . With the canons of the Carlisle Cathedral Chapter, Ross got into such a violent dispute over the division of the rights and income of the diocese that he finally excommunicated the canons . Also with John Kirkby , the prior of Carlisle, he got into a dispute over the income of the diocese, whereupon he also excommunicated him. In the last years of his life, Ross was seriously ill, he died shortly before May 4, 1332. He was not buried in Carlisle, but probably in his southern English homeland.

literature

  • RK Rose: The bishops and diocese of Carlisle. Church and society on the Anglo-Scottish border, 1292-1395 . University of Edinburgh, 1983.
  • CML Bouch: Prelates and people of the lake counties: a history of the diocese of Carlisle, 1133-1933 . T. Wilson, Kendal 1948

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kathleen Edwards: The social origins and provenance of the English bishops during the reign of Edward II . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 9 (1959), p. 67.
  2. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 139, n.108.
predecessor Office successor
John Halton Bishop of Carlisle
1325-1332 		John Kirkby
personal data
SURNAME Ross, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ros, John; Rosse, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English clergyman, Bishop of Carlisle
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH before May 4, 1332