Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury Lionel 1 2a

Birth Name Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury Lionel
Gender male
Age at Death about 38 years, 5 months, 22 days

Narrative

Lionel Woodville
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Lionel Woodville (c. 1446 – 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.

Life
He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.

In the late 1470s, he became the first person to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.

After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated January 7, 1482 and consecrated in April 1482.

He died about June 23, 1484.

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1446 Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England   1
Death 1484-06-23 New Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England    

Age: 38y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Woodville, 1st Earl of Rivers Sir Richardabout 14051469-08-12
Mother de Luxembourg, Jacquettaabout 14161472-05-30
    Sister     Woodville, Elizabeth about 1435 1492-06-08
    Brother     Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers Anthony about 1436 1483-06-25
    Sister     Woodville, Anne about 1438 1489-07-30
    Brother     Woodville, Sir John about 1440 1469-08-12
    Sister     Woodville, Martha about 1442 1500
    Sister     Woodville, Jacquetta about 1444 1509
         Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury Lionel about 1446 1484-06-23
    Brother     Woodville, Lewis about 1448 1454
    Sister     Woodville, Eleanor Joan about 1449 1512
    Brother     Woodville, Thomas about 1451
    Brother     Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers Richard about 1453 1492-03-06
    Sister     Woodville, Margaret about 1454 1490
    Brother     Woodville, Sir Edward about 1455 1488
    Sister     Woodville, Mary about 1456 1481
    Sister     Woodville, Katherine about 1458 1525-07-22

Source References

  1. Mary de Neville.ged
  2. Michael Neuman: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I48267 Caldwell and related families
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        ID: I48267
        Name: Thomas de Lyons
        Sex: M
        Birth: ABT 1260 in Norwich, Norfolk, England

         

         

        Father: Sir John de Lyons b: ABT 1225 in Norwich, Norfolk, England
        Mother: Marjory de Ackle b: ABT 1226

        Marriage 1 Margaret b: ABT 1268
        Children
        Has Children Isabel de Lyons b: ABT 1290 in Norwich, Norfolk, England

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