Prior of Durham

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A list of the Bishops, Priors and Deans of Durham as seen on the wall of St. Cuthbert's shrine in Durham Cathedral. List of Durham Bishops Priors and Deans inside Durham Cathedral.jpg
A list of the Bishops, Priors and Deans of Durham as seen on the wall of St. Cuthbert's shrine in Durham Cathedral.

The Prior of Durham was the head of the Roman Catholic Durham Cathedral Priory, founded c. 1083 with the move of a previous house from Jarrow. The succession continued until dissolution of the monastery in 1540, when the priory was replaced with a Church of England deanery church. [1]

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After the Benedictine monastery was dissolved, the last Prior of Durham, Hugh Whitehead, became the first Dean of Durham, heading the cathedral's secular chapter. [2]

List

Priors of St Cuthbert's Cathedral Priory, Durham
FromUntilIncumbentCitation(s)Notes
1073x4 (Jarrow)
1083 (Durham)		died 1087 Aldwin [3]
1087resigned 1109 Turgot [3] Became Bishop of St Andrews [3]
1109died 1137 x 1138Algar [3]
?1138died 1149Roger [3]
1149died 1154 Lawrence [3]
1154died 1158Absalom [3]
1161 x 1162resigned 1162 or 1163Thomas [3] Died 1173
1163died 1189Germanus [3]
1189died 1212 x 1213Bertram [3]
1212 x 1213died 1218William [3] [4]
1218died 1234Ranulf Kerneth [5]
1234died 1244 Thomas de Melsonby [5]
1244resigned 1258Bertram de Middleton [5] Still alive in 1266 [5]
1258resigned 1273Hugh de Darlington [5]
1273resigned 1285Richard de Claxton [5]
1286resigned 1290Hugh de Darlington (again) [5]
elected 1290 Richard de Hoton [6] Deprived of office 1300 and replaced with Henry de Lusby; restored 1302; suspended and replaced by Lusby again 1306; restored 1307; died 1308. [7]
appointed 1300Henry de Lusby [6] Prior of Lindisfarne, appointed to Durham 1300-1302 and briefly in 1306. Died 1306.
1308resigned 1313William de Tanfield [8] Died 7 February 1314 [8]
1313resigned 1321Geoffrey de Burdon [8] Still alive in 1333; previously prior of Finchale and prior of Lyytham [8]
elected 1321William de Guisborough [8] Elected 6 February, renounced election 8 February 1321
1321died 1341William de Cowton [8]
1341died 1374 John Fossor [9]
1374died 1391Robert Berrington of Walworth [10]
1391died 1416John de Hemingbrough [11]
1416died 1446 John de Washington [11]
1446resigned 1456William Ebchester [11]
1456died 1464John Burnby [11]
1464resigned 1479Richard Bell [11]
1479died 1484Robert Ebchester [11]
1484died 1494John Auckland [11]
14941519Thomas Castell [11]
1520office abolished 1540 Hugh Whitehead [11] Whitehead surrendered the monastery to the king in 1540, and was reappointed the first Dean of Durham with a chapter of twelve canons. [11] He died in 1551. [12]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Durham Cathedral - North Bailey, Durham, UK". Engineering Timelines. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. ↑ Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Durham. Sheffield: W. White & Co. 1827. p. 160.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Knowles, Brooke, and London, (1972), Heads of Religious Houses , i, p. 43
  4. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 37—8
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 38
  6. 1 2 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 38—9
  7. ↑ Fraser, C. M. (2004), "Hoton, Richard (d. 1308), prior of Durham", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13858, retrieved on 2009-01-28
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 39
  9. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 39—40
  10. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 40
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page, "Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham".
  12. ↑ Knighton, "Whitehead, Hugh"

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