Humphrey de Cherlton

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Humphrey de Cherlton (or Humphrey de Charlton) was an English medieval churchman and university chancellor. [1]

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De Cherlton was a Doctor of Civil Law. [2] :25 Between 1354 and 1357, he was Chancellor of the University of Oxford. [2] [3] :9 The St Scholastica Day riot of February 10, 1355, a clash between university students and townspeople killing 63 students and an estimated third of the local population, [4] [5] one of the most notorious events in the history of Oxford, occurred during this period. King Edward III, not pleased with the riot having occurred in England's esteemed town of Oxford, ordered an investigation, and the eventual findings favored the University. [6] :16–17

Humphrey de Cherlton was also Canon of the Collegiate Church at Totenhale in the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, [2] and a prebendary of York during 1361–83. [7]

Family

It is often speculated that Humphrey de Cherlton's brother, Lewis de Charleton, Bishop of Hereford, was Oxford's chancellor in 1357. [1] [7] [8] :26 [3] :9

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  1. 1 2 Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford . Macmillan. pp. 521–522. ISBN   0-333-39917-X.
  2. 1 2 3 Wood (1790). Fasti Oxonienses. p.  25.
  3. 1 2 Anon., The Oxford Ten-Year Book: A Register of University Honours and Distinctions, Completed to the End of the Year 1870, (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1872), p. 9.
  4. ↑ Miller, Carol M. (June 1993). "The St. Scholastica Day Riot: Oxford after the Black Death". FCH Annals – Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians. 1: 29–42. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2018. (PDF of entire volume Archived 14 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine )
  5. ↑ "10 February". Ward's Book of Days. 19 August 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  6. ↑ Meacham, T., The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 16–17.
  7. 1 2 Wordsworth, Christopher, ed. (1790). The Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford. Vol. XLV. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  8. ↑ Wood (1790). Fasti Oxonienses. p.  26.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
William de Palmorna 		Chancellor of the University of Oxford
1354–1357		Succeeded by
Lewis de Charleton?
or John de Hotham


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