John Oxenbridge (priest)

John Oxenbridge LL.D. (died 25 July 1522) was a Canon of Windsor from 1509 to 1522.[1]

Family edit

He was the son of Robert Oxenbridge and Anne Lyvelode.[2]

Career edit

He was educated at the University of Valencia and graduated LL.B. in 1498 and LL.D by 1499.

He was appointed:

  • Prebendary of Hampstead in Chichester Cathedral 1499
  • Commissary and Sequestrator-General for the Bishop of Chichester in the Archdeaconry of Lewes 1498
  • Vicar of Icklesham (resigned 1505)
  • Vicar of Cullompton, Devon until 1522
  • Vicar of Shillington, Bedfordshire 1505
  • King's Clerk

He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1509, and held the stall until 1522. A chantry was built in the chapel in his memory under the fifth arch in the south aisle of the choir.[3] Over the door is a lion rampant, with escalope round him, with the rebus of the founder's name; an Ox, the letter N and a bridge.[4]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  2. ^ Cooper, W. D. (1856). "Notices of Winchelsea in and after the Fifteenth Century". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 8: 230. doi:10.5284/1085173.
  3. ^ Magna Britannia. Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Samuel Lysons. 1813
  4. ^ The Windsor Guide. C Knight. Windsor. 1804