Priors of Worcester

This is a list of priors of Worcester, until the Benedictine Order's dissolution in 1540.

List of priors of Worcester Cathedral
Name	Appointed	Retired	Notes
Wulfstan		1062	Became Bishop of Worcester^[1]
Ælfstan	1062	1080	Brother of Wulfstan and probably succeeded him as prior^[2]
Thomas	1080	d.1113	^[3]
Nicholas	c.1116	d.1124	^[4]
Warin	Before 1133	Around 1140-42	^[1]
Ralph of Bath	1142	d.1143	^[1]
David	1143	Deposed 1145	^[1]
Osbert	1145	d.1146	^[1]
Ralph de Bedeford	1146	d.1189	^[1]
M. Senatus	1189	d.1207	^[1]
Peter	1196	Deposed 1203	^[1]
Randulph of Evesham	1203	1214	Became Abbott of Evesham^[1]
Silvester of Evesham	1215	1216	Became Bishop of Worcester^[1]
Simon Pimme	1216	Deposed 1220-22	Appealed to Pope unsuccessfully, died 1223^[1]
William Norman	1222	resigned 1224	Appointed by Bishop, quarrelled with the convent, arguments settled 1224^[1]
William de Bedeforde	1224	d.1242	^[1]
Richard de Gundicote	1242	d.1252	^[1]
Thomas	1252	d.1260	^[1]
Richard de Dumbleton	1260	1272	^[1]
William de Cirencester	1272	d.1274	^[1]
Richard de Feckenham	1274	d.1286	^[1]
Philip de Aubyn	1287	d.1296	^[1]
Simon de Wyre	1296	resigned 1301	^[1]
John de Wyke	1301	1317	^[5]
Wulstan de Bransford	1317	1338/9	Became Bishop of Worcester^[5]
Simon de Botiler	1339	1339	^[5]
Simon Crompe	1339	1340	^[5]
John de Evesham	1340	1370	^[5]
Walter de Legh	1370	1388	^[5]
John Green	1388	1395	^[5]
John de Malvern	1395		^[5]
John de Fordham		1438	^[5]
Thomas Ledbury	1438	1444	^[5]
John Hertelbury	1444	1455	^[5]
Thomas Musard	1455	1469	^[5]
Robert Multon	1469	1492	^[5]
William Wenlocke	1492	1499	^[5]
Thomas Mildenham	1499	1507	^[5]
John Wednesbury	1507	1518	^[5]
William More	1518	1536	^[5]
Henry Holbeach	1536	1540	^[5]

References edit

Primary sources

More, William (1914), Fegan, Ethel S (ed.), Journal of Prior William More., London: Printed for the Worcestershire Historical Society, by M. Hughes and Clarke, OL 23307603M

Secondary sources

Greatrex, Joan (1997). Biographical Register of English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c.1066-1540. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820424-4.
Greenway, Diana E, ed. (1971). "Priors of Worcester". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 2, Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces). London: British History Online. pp. 102–104. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
Jones, B, ed. (1963). "Priors of Worcester". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province). London: British History Online. pp. 59–60. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
Winterbottom, Michael; Thomson, Rodney, eds. (2002). "Life of Wulfstan". William of Malmesbury: Saints’ Lives (in Latin and English). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. pp. 1–155. ISBN 978-0-19-820709-2.