John Hales (c. 1400-1490)[2] (alias Hals, Halse, etc.) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1459-1490). He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (d.1723).[3]
John Hales | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield | |
 | |
| Appointed | 20 September 1459 |
| Term ended | between 15 September and 30 September 1490 |
| Predecessor | Reginald Boulers |
| Successor | William Smyth |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 25 November 1459 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | September 1490 |
| Denomination | Catholic |
Origins
editHales was the second son of John Hals (fl.1423) of Kenedon in the parish of Sherford, Devon (a Justice of the Common Pleas and in 1423 a Justice of the King's Bench) by his first wife, a daughter of the Mewye (alias Mewy[4]) family of Whitchurch near Tavistock, Devon. [5] His great-uncle was Richard Hals (d.1418), a Canon of Exeter Cathedral in Devon, and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral in 1400, who in 1414 was sent as Ambassador to Brittany.[6] Bishop Hals appointed his kinsman Edmund Hals as Archdeacon of Salop from an unknown date until 1485 and as Archdeacon of Derby from 1485, probably until his death.[7] The mansion house of the Hals' at Kenedon, originally quadrangular in form, is today represented by a small 16th c. farmhouse known as Keynedon, about 1 mile south of the village of Sherford.[8] The early 15th century gate-tower of the house was demolished in about 1850.[9]
Career
editHales was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1446 to 1449.[10] He was Dean of Exeter between 1457 and 1459.[11] In 1470, during the reign of King Henry VI, Hales was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal, but lost the office on the restoration of King Edward IV in 1471.[12] Hales was nominated as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield on 20 September 1459, and was consecrated on 25 November 1459. He died between 15 and 30 September 1490,[13] aged about 90,[14] and was buried in Lichfield Cathedral.[15]
References
edit- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.439; Tinctures reversed per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.485
- ^ Date of birth c.1400 as died "aged about 90" per Vivian, p.439
- ^ Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp.455-7
- ^ Pole, p.288
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.439
- ^ Vivian, p.439
- ^ Southworth, Carol M., Pluralism and Stability in the Close: The Canons of Lichfield Cathedral in the Last Quarter of the Fifteenth Century, Thesis, University of Birmingham, January 2012, University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository[1], p.18, footnote 40, quoting: "Le Neve, John, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 X Coventry and Lichfield Diocese, compiled by B.Jones (London 1964), p.17; Emden, A.B., A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to 1500, 3 volumes (Oxford 1957-9), p.856"; "Edmund Hals" not listed in the family's pedigree in the Visitations of Devon (Vivian, p.439)
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.727
- ^ Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.475
- ^ ‘Oxford College Histories: Oriel College’ Ranie, D.W. p57: London; F.E. Robinson & Co;1900
- ^ Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24.
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 96
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 254
- ^ Vivian, p.439
- ^ Prince, p.457
Sources
edit- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.