Thomas Rushook

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Thomas Rushook (also Thomas Rushhook , Thomas Rushooke or Thomas Russhock ; † 1393 ) was an English prelate .

Origin and advancement in the Dominican order

Rushook probably comes from the village Rushock in Worcestershire , from which it got its name. He is mentioned in 1352 and 1354 as prior of the Dominican convent of Hereford . In 1373 he was provincial superior of the Dominicans in England. In 1378 he took part with other English Dominicans at a general assembly of the order in Carcassonne , France , where he was deposed as superior provincial after a dispute with the order master Elias Raymond . Rushook successfully appealed to Pope Urban VI. , of whom he was reinstated in his office on August 25, 1379 after a hearing by Cardinal Nicolò Carracciolo . Perhaps through this hearing he aroused the interest of the English royal court, because even before May 5, 1379, Rushook had become the confessor of the young King Richard II . Rushook must already have polarized around this time, because in November 1381 the parliament requested that he should only have access to the royal court at the four church festivals, but this request was rejected.

Favorite of King Richard II and promotion to bishop

Rushook resigned from office as superior provincial in 1382 and, like Richard Mitford and other clergymen, belonged to the king's immediate circle. He became archdeacon of St Asaph on June 9, 1382 . This benefice was very unusual for a Dominican and only owed to the influence of the king. Rushook and the other clergy were hated by the English nobility for their influence on the king. Through the mediation of the king, he was appointed by the Pope Bishop of Llandaff in Wales on January 16, 1383 and consecrated on May 3 by Archbishop William Courtenay in the Dominican Church in London. On October 18, 1383 he was given the parish of Newland in Gloucestershire so that he could have a decent income. However, he remained confessor to the king and was on October 16, 1385 against the opposition of the cathedral chapter, which had spoken out in favor of Richard le Scrope as the new bishop, Bishop of Chichester . According to the records received, he was in his diocese at least in December 1386 and from June to August 1387, but remained confessor and counselor to the king as Bishop of Chichester.

Fall and banishment to Ireland

As adviser to the king he declared on August 25, 1387 in Nottingham the proposals of the commission set up by the Wonderful Parliament in November 1386 to reform the rule of the king as invalid. Thereupon the merciless parliament demanded in January 1388 that he should leave the royal court. When he stayed at court, he was assaulted on March 6th during the parliamentary assembly. He was accused of treason, convicted, and expropriated on May 5th. He was forced to resign as Bishop of Chichester and was exiled to Ireland . He reached Cork via Bristol on September 29, 1388 . Before November 17, 1388 he was appointed bishop of the Irish diocese of Kilmore by the Pope . King Richard II granted the impoverished Rushook an annual pension of £ 40 on March 10, 1390, and his new confessor was John Burghill , who, like Rushook, was a Dominican from Hereford. Rushook probably died in early 1393, buried at Seal , Kent .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian Golding: Medford, Richard (d.1407). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
predecessor Office successor
Rodger Cradock Bishop of Llandaff
1383–1385 		William VI. from Bottlesham
William Reade Bishop of Chichester
1385-1387 		Richard Mitford
John Bishop of Kilmore
1388-1393 		Seoán Ó Raghillaigh
personal data
SURNAME Rushook, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas Rushhook; Thomas Rushooke; Thomas Russhock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English prelate
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1393