Bishops of Norwich - Pandulf Masca, John de Gray, Charles Manners-Sutton, Joseph Hall, Henry Le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, John Overall (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Pandulf Masca, John de Gray, Charles Manners-Sutton, Joseph Hall, Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, John Overall, Samuel Harsnett, Richard Montagu, Launcelot Fleming, Richard Nykke, John Parkhurst, Francis White, John Salmon, William de Raley, Edward Reynolds, Maurice Wood, Thomas Hayter, Percy Herbert, Graham James, Thomas Brunce, John Pelham, Richard Courtenay, John Jegon, William Lloyd, Matthew Wren, John Moore, George Horne, William Rugg, William Alnwick, William de Turbeville, Edward Stanley, Herbert de Losinga, William Middleton, John of Oxford, Edmund Freke, Samuel Hinds, Ralph Walpole, Charles Trimnell, Richard Corbet, Anthony Sparrow, Robert Butts, William Ayermin, John Leng, Thomas Green, Edmund Scambler, Henry Bathurst, Bertram Pollock, Antony Bek, Simon of Elmham, Samuel Lisle, Roger Skerning, Robert Baldock, Thomas Gooch, John Sheepshanks, Everard of Calne, William Redman, Philip Yonge, Thomas Hemenhale, Thomas Blunville, William Bateman, Thomas Thirlby, Simon Walton, John Wakering, William Baker, John Hopton, Thomas Jane, Walter Suffield, Peter Nott, James Goldwell, Lewis Bagot, Ealdbeorht II, Thomas Percy, Alexander Tottington, Walter Hart. Excerpt: Henry le Despenser (c. 1341-1406) was a 14th century English nobleman and Bishop of Norwich whose reputation as the 'Fighting Bishop' was gained for his part in suppressing the Peasants' Revolt and in defeating the peasants at the Battle of North Walsham in the summer of 1381. As a young man he studied at Oxford University and held numerous positions in the English Church. He fought in Italy before being consecrated as a bishop in 1370. Parliament agreed to allow Despenser to lead a crusade to Flanders in 1383, which was directed against Louis II of Flanders, a supporter of the antipope Clement VII. The crusade was in defence of English economic and p...