Prior of Durham

A list of the Bishops, Priors and Deans of Durham as seen on the wall of St. Cuthbert's shrine in Durham Cathedral.

The Prior of Durham was the head of the Roman Catholic Durham Cathedral Priory, founded c. 1083 with the move of a previous house from Jarrow. The succession continued until dissolution of the monastery in 1540, when the priory was replaced with a Church of England deanery church.

After the Benedictine monastery was dissolved, the last Prior of Durham, Hugh Whitehead, became the first Dean of Durham, heading the cathedral's secular chapter.

List

Priors of St Cuthbert's Cathedral Priory, Durham
From Until Incumbent Citation(s) Notes
1083 died 1087 Aldwin Prior of Jarrow from 1073x4 before the priory's move to Durham
1087 resigned 1109 Turgot Became Bishop of St Andrews
1109 died 1137 x 1138 Algar
?1138 died 1149 Roger
1149 died 1154 Lawrence
1154 died 1158 Absalom
1161 x 1162 resigned 1162 or 1163 Thomas Died 1173
1163 died 1189 Germanus
1189 died 1212 x 1213 Bertram
1212 x 1213 died 1218 William
1218 died 1234 Ranulf Kerneth
1234 died 1244 Thomas de Melsonby
1244 resigned 1258 Bertram de Middleton Still alive in 1266
1258 resigned 1273 Hugh de Darlington
1273 resigned 1285 Richard de Claxton
1286 resigned 1290 Hugh de Darlington (again)
elected 1290 Richard de Hoton Deprived of office 1300, replaced with Henry de Lusby; restored 1302; suspended and replaced by Lusby again 1306; restored 1307; died 1308.
appointed 1300 Henry de Lusby Prior of Lindisfarne, appointed to Durham 1300-1302 and briefly in 1306. Died 1306.
1308 resigned 1313 William de Tanfield Died 7 February 1314
1313 resigned 1321 Geoffrey de Burdon Still alive in 1333; previously prior of Finchale and prior of Lyytham
elected 1321 William de Guisborough Elected 6 February, renounced election 8 February 1321
1321 died 1341 William de Cowton
1341 died 1374 John Fossor
1374 died 1391 Robert Berrington of Walworth
1391 died 1416 John de Hemingbrough
1416 died 1446 John de Washington
1446 resigned 1456 William Ebchester
1456 died 1464 John Burnby
1464 resigned 1479 Richard Bell
1479 died 1484 Robert Ebchester
1484 died 1494 John Auckland
1494 1519 Thomas Castell
1520 office abolished 1540 Hugh Whitehead Surrendered the monastery to the king in 1540, and reappointed as first Dean of Durham with a chapter of twelve canons. Died 1551.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Durham Cathedral - North Bailey, Durham, UK". Engineering Timelines. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. ↑ Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Durham. Sheffield: W. White & Co. 1827. p. 160.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Knowles, Brooke, and London, (1972), Heads of Religious Houses , i, p. 43
  4. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 37—8
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 38
  6. 1 2 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 38—9
  7. ↑ Fraser, C. M. (2004), "Hoton, Richard (d. 1308), prior of Durham", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13858, retrieved on 2009-01-28
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 39
  9. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, pp. 39—40
  10. ↑ Smith & London (eds.), Heads of Religions Houses, ii, p. 40
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page, "Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham".
  12. ↑ Knighton, "Whitehead, Hugh"

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