ROGER WALDEN

'Roger Walden' (d. 1406), was an English treasurer and church figure.

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Life

Notes

References

See also

External links

Further Reading

Life

Little is now known of his birth nor of his early years. He had some connection with the Channel Islands, and resided for some time in Jersey where he was Rector of the Parish Church of St Helier from 1371 to 1378. He then held livings in Yorkshire and in Leicestershire before he became archdeacon of Winchester in 1387. His days, however, were by no means fully occupied with his ecclesiastical duties, and in 1387 also he was appointed treasurer of Calais, holding about the same time other positions in this neighbourhood.
In 1395, after having served Richard II as secretary, Walden became treasurer of England,Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 102 adding the deanery of York to his numerous other benefices. On November 8, 1397 he was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Thomas Arundel,Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 211 who had just been banished from the realm, but he lost this position when the new king Henry IV restored Arundel in 1399, and after a short imprisonment he passed into retirement, being, as he himself says, "in the dust and under feet of men."
On December 10, 1405, through Arundel's influence, he was elected Bishop of London, and he died at Much Hadham in Hertfordshire on January 6 1406.Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 230 An ''Historia Mundi'', the manuscript of which is in the British Museum, is sometimes regarded as the work of Walden; but this was doubtless written by an earlier writer.

Notes

References

★ Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

See also

★ List of Archbishops of Canterbury

★ List of bishops of London

★ List of Lord High Treasurers

External links

★ Roger Walden at 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Further Reading

Wylie, H. J. ''History of England under Henry IV'' vol. iii. (1896).