Robert Waldby
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Robert Waldby (Died January 1398) was a native of York and an Austin Friar who followed the Black Prince into Aquitaine. After studying at Toulouse, he became professor of theology there.
He was possibly Bishop of Sodor and Man (1381) before becoming successively Bishop of Aire in Gascony (1387); Archbishop of Dublin (1391); Bishop of Chichester (1396) and finally Archbishop of York (1397) a post which lasted until his death in 1398.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his brass remains, in the Chapel of St. Edmund.
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Preceded by: Thomas Arundel |
Archbishop of York 1397–1398 |
Succeeded by: Richard le Scrope |