Editing Simon Langham (section)

===Archbishop of Canterbury===
He was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury on 24 July 1366.<ref name=Handbook233>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 233</ref>

Perhaps the most interesting incident in Langham's primacy was when he drove the [[secular clergy]] from [[Canterbury College, Oxford]] and filled their places with monks or friars in 1366. The expelled head of the seculars was a certain John de Wiclif, who has been identified with the reformer [[John Wycliffe]]. In 1371 Wycliffe's appeal to Rome was decided and was unfavourable to him. The incident was typical of the ongoing rivalry between monks and secular clergy at Oxford University at this time.<ref name="Estep">{{ cite book |last=Estep |first=William Roscoe |year= 1986 |title=Renaissance and Reformation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUENoh0ey4QC&q=john+wycliffe&pg=PA59 |access-date=26 October 2019 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0802800503 |via=Google Books }}</ref>

Notwithstanding the part Langham as Chancellor had taken in the anti-papal measures of 1365 and 1366, he was made cardinal of [[San Sisto Vecchio]] by [[Pope Urban V]] in 1368. This lost him the favour of [[Edward III of England|Edward III]]; two months later, he resigned his archbishopric and went to [[Avignon]].<ref name=Handbook233/> He had already resigned the chancellorship on 18 July 1367.<ref name=Handbook86/> He was soon allowed to hold other although less exalted positions in England.