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William of Wykeham ( 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404 ) was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College, New College, Oxford, New College School, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle.
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William and Wykeham
** William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester ( d. 1404 )
* September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman ( b. 1320 )
However, William of Wykeham ( 1320 – 1404 ) played an important role in the city's restoration.
The day-to-day affairs of the state had less appeal to Edward than military campaigning, so during the 1360s Edward increasingly relied on the help of his subordinates, in particular William Wykeham.
Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to both Edward III and Richard II, and the first 70 poor scholars entered the school in 1394.
John impeached William of Wykeham and other leaders of the reform movement, and secured their conviction on old or trumped-up charges.
In 1379, Hart Hall and Black Hall were rented by William of Wykeham as a temporary home for his scholars as his New College, to the east along what became New College Lane, was being built.
The second college in Oxford to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester as " The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford ".
William of Wykeham ordained that there were to be ten chaplains, three clerks and 16 choristers on the foundation of the college.
When William of Wykeham founded the College, he formally agreed to maintain the City Wall when he acquired the land on which to build the College.
As part of the original College statutes, William of Wykeham provided for a choral foundation of lay and academical clerks, with boy choristers to sing mass and the daily offices.
The College's motto, created by William of Wykeham, is " Manners Makyth Man ".
Henry had belatedly learned of William of Wykeham's 1379 twin foundation of New College, Oxford and Winchester College, and wanted his own achievements to surpass those of Wykeham.
In 1373 he declared in convocation that he would not contribute to a subsidy until the evils from which the church suffered were removed ; in 1375 he incurred the displeasure of the king by publishing a papal bull against the Florentines ; and in 1377 his decided action during the quarrel between John of Gaunt and William of Wykeham ended in a temporary triumph for the bishop.
It was the birthplace of William of Wykeham, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
* Lowth, Robert Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
* Moberly, G. H. Life of William Wykeham.
* Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles William of Wykeham and his Colleges.
* Augusta Theodosia Drane, The Three Chancellors, or Sketches of the Lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.
* Virginia Davis, William Wykeham: a life.
William of Wykeham
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William and 1320
* William II de Soules ( died c. 1320 )
* William of Wykeham ( 1320 – 1404 ), Bishop of Winchester, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
Morey suggests that William Tyndale ( 1494 – 1536 ) and John Wycliffe ( 1320 – 1384 ) taught the doctrine of soul sleep " as the answer to the Catholic teachings of purgatory and masses for the dead.
* William FitzJohn, Bishop of Ossory ( 1318 – 1320 )
The younger William was still a minor at the time of his father's death, and entered the royal household as a ward of the king in 1320.
In reality William De Soulis was imprisoned in Dumbarton castle and died there, following his confessed complicity in the conspiracy against Robert the Bruce in 1320.
* William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke ( 1320 – 1358 )
It stayed in his family until approximately 1320 when his descendant, William de Soulis was forfeited on account of witchcraft and the attempted regicide of King Robert I of Scotland.
This popular romance must have been circulating in England before 1320, because William of Nassington, in his work Speculum Vitae, which dates from this time, mentions feats of arms and other ' vanities ', such as those found in stories of Sir Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, Octavian and Sir Isumbras.
William and 1324
Her eldest sister Margaret married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1324 ; and in 1345, she became the suo jure Countess of Hainaut upon the death of their brother William in battle.
* William de Thurgarton, 1324
* William Ayermin ( 1324 – 1325 )
In his Defensor Pacis ( 1324 ), Marsilius of Padua agreed with William of Ockham that the universal Church is a church of the faithful, not the priests.
He was survived by at least one son, Sir William Liath de Burgh, Custos or Warden of Ireland, who married Una, a daughter of the Mac Jordan of Connacht, and died in 1324.
* William of Trie ( 1324 – 1334 )
William was presumed dead and Mabel remarried, but he returned in 1324 and killed Mabel's new husband.
* William of Abbotsley, elected 1314, died 1324
William and –
* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )
* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )
* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )
* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )
* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )
* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )
* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )
* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )
* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )
* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875
* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )
* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )
* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )
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