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==Career== [[File:John de Stratford Coats of Arms.jpeg|thumb|upright|Coats of arms attributed to John de Stratford <ref>{{unbulleted list |a) Gules, a fess humette between three trestles, argent |b) Gules, a fess humette or between two trestles, argent |c) Or, a fess gules, between three torteaux |d) Argent, a fess gules, between three bezants |e) Per fess gules and sable, three plates}} Bedford, WK Riland. "The Blazon of Episcopacy" 1858</ref>]] Stratford served as [[archdeacon of Lincoln]], canon of [[York]] and [[Dean of Arches|dean of the court of arches]] before 20 June 1323, when he became [[Bishop of Winchester]],<ref name=Handbook277>Fryde. et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 277</ref> an appointment which was made during his visit to Pope [[Pope John XXII|John XXII]] at [[Avignon]] and which was very much disliked by Edward II. In 1327 the bishop joined [[Isabella of France|Queen Isabella]]'s partisans; he drew up the six articles against Edward II, and was one of those who visited the captive king at [[Kenilworth Castle|Kenilworth]] to urge him to abdicate in favour of his son.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Stratford, John de |volume=25 |page=997 |inline=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Haines |first=Roy Martin |title=Archbishop John Stratford, Political Revolutionary and Champion of the Liberties of the English Church, ca.1275/80-1348 |place=Toronto |publisher=[[Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies]] |year=1986 |isbn=0888440766 }}</ref> On 26 November 1326 he was appointed [[Lord Treasurer]] of England, a post he held until 28 January 1327.<ref name=Handbook105>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 105</ref> Under [[Edward III of England|Edward III]], John de Stratford (Bishop of Winchester) became a member of the royal council from its inception in February 1327. Stratford is often regarded as the main clerical ally of the party of Earl [[Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster|Henry of Lancaster]] inside the council. Together with [[Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell|Thomas Wake]], Stratford helped organize the London petition of grievances (27 September 1328) against the government of Mortimer & Isabella. His high political importance dates from the autumn of 1330, the time when [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March|Roger Mortimer]] lost his power. Edward III appointed Stratford as his new [[Lord Chancellor|chancellor]] on 28 November, 1330.<ref name = "foss321">Edward Foss (1851) ''The Judges of England'', v.3, p.321-23.</ref> For the next ten years Stratford was actively engaged in public business, being the king's most prominent adviser and being politically, says Stubbs, the "head of the Lancastrian or constitutional party."<ref name=EB1911/> In 1329 and 1332 he was involved in the case of [[Christina Carpenter]] who was an anchoress in a cell in [[Shere]] in Kent. She escaped from her cell and asked to be readmitted so she could die as a recluse.<ref name="Thomas2012">{{cite book|author=Wyndham Thomas|title=Robert Saxton: Caritas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtHDa15XkTcC&pg=PA16|year=2012|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6601-1|pages=16β20}}</ref> On 3 November 1333 Stratford was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury<ref name=Handbook233>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 233</ref> and he resigned the chancellorship in the following year (28 September, 1334).<ref name = "foss321" /> However, Stratford held the office of chancellor again for two years (from 6 June, 1335 to 24 March, 1337), when he was succeeded by his younger brother [[Robert de Stratford]] (then archdeacon of Canterbury), who had already acted frequently as ''locum tenens'' during his brother's absences. The elder Stratford was appointed for a third time as chancellor on 28 April, 1340, serving for about two months before resigning because of ill health. He was succeeded again by his younger brother Robert (now Bishop of Chichester) on 20 June, 1340.<ref name = "foss321" /><ref name=Handbook86>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 86</ref> In November 1340 Edward III, humiliated, impecunious and angry, returned suddenly to England from [[Flanders]] and vented his wrath upon the archbishop's brother, the chancellor, [[Robert de Stratford]], as well as briefly imprisoning [[Henry de Stratford]].<ref name="David Charles Douglas p. 69"/> Fearing arrest the archbishop fled to [[Canterbury]], and entered upon a violent war of words with the king, and by his firm conduct led to the establishment of the principle that peers were only to be tried in full parliament before their own order (''en pleyn parlement et devant les piers''). But good relations were soon restored between the two, and the archbishop acted as president of the council during Edward's absence from England in 1345 and 1346, although he never regained his former position of influence.<ref name=EB1911/><ref name=Powell335>Powell and Wallis ''House of Lords in the Middle Ages'' pp. 335β43</ref>
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