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(From 915 to 1653)
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Office Holder |
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Year
of appointment and termination |
| Samson | In 915, on account of a pestilential disease which then raged here, withdrew to Dol in Brittany, taking his pall with him, where he died; and his successors in the see, either for want of the pall, or for some other reason, were deprived of the title of Archbishop, although they still exercised the power of consecrating the Welsh bishops of Llandaf, St. Asaph, and Bangor, until the reign of Henry I., when a Norman ecclesiastic, named Bernard, not chosen by the Welsh clergy | |
| Bernard | ||
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b. ABT 1099 - d. 1176 |
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| Peter De Leia | Prior to the preferment of this prelate, the chapter had elected Giraldus Cambrensis, as the successor of his uncle, Bishop Fitzgerald; but king Henry II, unwilling to elevate to that dignity a man of such influence and talents, refused to ratify their choice. The same body, however, on the death of Peter de Leia, again placed Giraldus at the head of a list of four persons, whom they nominated; but his election not being confirmed, the see remained vacant for six years, whilst Giraldus was endeavouring to procure his consecration to it. | |
| six years vacancy | ||
| Geoffrey De Henelawe | prior of Llanthony | |
| Iorwerth (Gervase) | ||
| Anselm | ||
| Richard De Carew | d. 1280 | |
| Thomas De Beke | d. 20 Apr 1293 | |
| David Martin | ||
| Henry Gower | Lord Chancellor of England | |
| John Thoresby |
Lord Chancellor of England Archbishop of York 1352 - 1373 |
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| Adam Houghton |
Lord Chancellor of England 1377 - 1379 |
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| John Gilbert | Lord Treasurer 1389 | |
| Guy De Mohun | Lord Treasurer 1398 and 1402 | |
| Henry Chicheley | Archbishop of Canterbury 1414 - 1443 | |
| John De La Bere | 1447 - 1460 | |
| Thomas Langton |
Bishop of Salisbury 1485 - 1494 Bishop of Winchester 1493-1501 |
- 1485 |
| Hugh Pavy | 1485 - 1496 | |
| John Morgan | 1496 - 1504 | |
| Robert Sherborn | 1505 - 1508 | |
| Edward Vaughan | eighty second Bishop of St. David's, is recorded as the last who contributed materially to the embellishment of the cathedral: he built a most elegant chapel between that of St. Mary and the choir, which he dedicated to the Holy Trinity; and adorned various parts of the building with appropriate embellishments: he also erected St. Justinian's chapel, about a mile from the city, and, dying about the year 1521, was interred in his own chapel, where was formerly a brass plate inscribed to his memory | 1509 - 1523 |
| Richard Rawlings | 1523 - 1536 | |
| William Barlow | Bishop of St Asaph's 1536. Presided over the see thirteen years, during which, in order, as it is said, (by Brown Willis,) successively to provide for his five daughters, who were married to five bishops, he greatly impoverished it, even taking off the roof of the episcopal palace, for the sake of the lead, and thus occasioning so much damage to that magnificent structure, as to require the revenue of the bishoprick for twelve years to repair; but this object was never attempted, so that it now presents a vast pile of picturesque ruins | 1536 - 1548 |
| Robert Ferrar | 1548 - 1554 | |
| Henry Morgan | deprived of title | 1554 - 1559 |
| Thomas Young | driven into exile in Germany, during the persecutions in the reign of Mary, but finally was made Archbishop of York | |
| Richard Davies | Bishop of St David's 1560 - 1561 | 1561 - 1581 |
| Richard Milbourne | translated to the see of Carlisle in 1621, and was accounted one of the most learned, pious, benevolent, and public spirited persons of the age | 1581 - 1621 |
| William Laud | ||
| Roger Mainwaring | 1644 - 1653 |
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