Richard Sydnor

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Richard Sydnor or Sydenor (died 1534) was the Receiver and Steward of Bishop Oldham of Exeter Cathedral from 10 Henry VII (1505) to 5 Henry VIII (1514) - see Exeter Cathedral MS. 3690. [1]

He was Archdeacon of Cornwall in 1515 and then Archdeacon of Totnes from 1515 to 1534. [2]

In 1519 he was appointed Canon of the tenth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1534. [3]

Sydnor was an official in the household of Princess Mary from 1518. Richard Pace was asked to write to Sydnor in July 1518 concerning Mary's movements during a plague scare. [4] His financial account gives some illustrations of Mary's early life. [5] He was receiver or treasurer of the household of Princess Mary in the 1520s, officially the surveyor of her lands he is also described as her cofferer. [6] and was accountant of repairs made at Tickenhill Manor and Ludlow Castle. [7]

A member of Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Orléans, he was rector of Witney in Oxfordshire from 1519 where his arms were included in a stained glass window. Sydnor died in April 1534 and was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. [8] [9]

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References

  1. Mumford M.D., Alfred A. (1936). Hugh Oldham 1452(?)-1519. London: Faber & Faber. pp. 30, 139.
  2. "Archdeacons: Totnes | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  3. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  4. Melita Thomas, The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and his daughter Mary (Amberley, 2017), p. 32: J. S. Brewer, Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, 2:2 (London, 1864), no. 4326.
  5. David M. Loades, Mary Tudor: A Life (Basil Blackwell, 1989), pp. 33–34, 40.
  6. Jeri L. McIntosh, "A Culture of Reverence: Princess Mary's Household", Alice Hunt & Anna Whitelock, Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 115.
  7. Melita Thomas, The King's Pearl (Amberley, 2017), pp. 79–80: Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 3:1 (London: HMSO, 1975), p. 277: Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1975), p. 280.
  8. William Dunn Macray, A Register of the Members of Magdalen College (London, 1894), p. 122.
  9. Cornelia M. Ridderikhoff, ‎Hilde de de Ridder-Symoens, ‎Detlef Illmer, Les Livres des Procurateurs, 1:2 (Brill, 1980), p. 101.
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Preceded by Archdeacon of Totnes
1515–1534
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