Stephen Gravesend - Wikipedia

Stephen Gravesend
Bishop of London
Elected	1 September 1318
Term ended	8 April 1338
Predecessor	Richard Newport
Successor	Richard de Wentworth
Orders
Consecration	14 January 1319
Personal details
Died	8 April 1338
Denomination	Catholic

Stephen Gravesend was a medieval Bishop of London.

Gravesend was elected 1 September 1318 and consecrated on 14 January 1319. He died on 8 April 1338.^[1]

Gravesend, along with Archbishop Melton, John Ross and Hamo Hethe, alone spoke up in Edward II's defence during the Parliamentary session that deposed Edward.^[2]

Citations[edit]

^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 258
^ Weir Queen Isabella p. 257

References[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.
Weir, Alison Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery and Murder in Medieval England New York: Ballantine 2005 ISBN 0-345-45319-0

External links[edit]

Hutchinson, John (1892). "Stephen of Gravesend" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 128.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Richard Newport	Bishop of London 1318–1338	Succeeded by Richard de Wentworth

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Post-Conquest	William the Norman Hugh d'Orevalle Maurice Richard de Belmeis I Gilbert Universalis Anselm (quashed) Robert de Sigello Richard de Belmeis II Gilbert Foliot Richard FitzNeal William of Sainte-Mère-Église Eustace of Fauconberg Roger Niger Fulk Basset Henry Wingham Richard Talbot Henry of Sandwich John Chishull Fulke Lovell Richard Gravesend Ralph Baldock Gilbert Segrave Richard Newport Stephen Gravesend Richard de Wentworth Ralph Stratford Michael Northburgh Simon Sudbury William Courtenay Robert Braybrooke Roger Walden Nicholas Bubwith Richard Clifford John Kemp William Grey Robert FitzHugh Robert Gilbert Thomas Kempe Richard Hill Thomas Savage William Warham William Barons Richard FitzJames Cuthbert Tunstall
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