Jones, D. J. (1983). The Cult of St Richard of Chichester in the Middle Ages. Sussex Archaeological Collections 121. Vol 121, pp. 79-86. https://doi.org/10.5284/1085942. Cite this via datacite
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The Cult of St Richard of Chichester in the Middle Ages | ||||||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 121 | ||||||
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79 - 86 | ||||||
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Richard of Wych, bishop of Chichester from 1244 until his death in 1253, was born in c. 1197 at Droitwich (Wares.). He enjoyed a prestigious and successful career in the Schools, gaining a doctorate in Canon Law and serving as Chancellor of the University of Oxford in the mid 1230s. He was subsequently chancellor to St. Edmund of Abingdon when he was Archbishop of Canterbury. After the death of St. Edmund in 1240, Richard considered entering the Dominican Order and studied with the friars at Orleans. But he was back in England by 1244, when he was nominated Bishop of Chichester. His appointment to Chichester was followed by a long dispute with the king, who had hoped to secure the diocese for a prominent royal servant, Robert Passe/ewe. Richard did not receive the temporalities of the see until July 1246, but thereafter was able to devote himself to the administration and pastoral care of his diocese: he promulgated the earliest series of diocesan statutes extant for Chichester, and his surviving charters show his constant interest in pastoral matters of all kinds. When he died in 1253 the odour of sanctity was already all about him. He was canonised in 1262, and his cult, although it never achieved the popularity of the shrine of Becket at Canterbury for example, remained popular with Sussex people until the Reformation. it is the purpose of this paper to describe and investigate this cult. | ||||||
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