Editing William Whittlesey

{{Short description|Archbishop of Canterbury from 1368 to 1374}}
{{about||the U.S. Representative from Ohio|William A. Whittlesey}}
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| appointed = 11 October 1368
| enthroned = unknown
| ended = 5 June 1374
| predecessor = [[Simon Langham]]
| successor = [[Simon Sudbury]]
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| consecration = 6 February 1362
| other_post = [[Bishop of Rochester]]<br>[[Bishop of Worcester]]
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| death_date = 5 June 1374
| death_place = [[Lambeth]]
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'''William Whittlesey''' (or '''Whittlesea''') (died 5 June 1374) was a [[Bishop of Rochester]], then [[Bishop of Worcester]], then finally [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. He also served as Master of [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]].

==Life==

Whittlesey was probably born in the [[Cambridgeshire]] village of [[Whittlesey, England]].

Whittlesey was educated at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of [[Simon Islip]], archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held [[prebend]]s at [[Lichfield]], [[Chichester]] and [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]], and livings at Ivychurch, [[Croydon]] and Cliffe.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Whittlesey was briefly appointed Master of Peterhouse on 10 September 1349 and resigned from that post in 1351.{{sfn|Roach|1959}} Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then [[dean of the court of arches]] by Islip.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} On 23 October 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on 6 February 1362.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=267}} Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=279}} On 11 October 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to [[Simon Langham]], but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He died at [[Lambeth]] on the 5th or 6 June 1374.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=233}}

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle = Whittlesea, William|volume=28|page=615}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fryde|first1=E. B. |last2=Greenway|first2=D. E. |last3=Porter|first3=S. |last4=Roy|first4=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Roach|editor-first=J. P. C. | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66643 |chapter=The colleges and halls: Peterhouse |title= A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge |year=1959 |pages=334–340}}
* {{cite DNB |wstitle = Whittlesey, William |first=James |last= Tait |author-link=James Tait (historian) |volume=61}}
* {{cite ODNB |first=R. N.|last=Swanson |title=Wittleseye , William (d. 1374) |id= 29333}}

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