Lionel Woodville

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Lionel Woodville (c. 1446 – 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.

Life

He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.

In the late 1470s, he became the first person to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.

After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November of 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated January 7 1482 and consecrated in April of 1482.

He died about June 23 1484.

See also

• List of bishops of Salisbury

Notes

References

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

External links

• Bishop of Salisbury
• The Peerage:Britains Royal Family
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 9

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