Aymer de Valence

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For the later earl, see Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
Aymer de Valence
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Winchester
Title Bishop of Winchester
Period in office 1250–1260
Predecessor William de Raley
Successor Andrew of London
Personal
Date of death December 4, 1260
Place of death Paris

Aymer de Valence, also known as Aymer de Lusignan or Thelmar de Valence, (c. 1222 – Paris, December 5, 1260 and buried there) was a Bishop of Winchester around 1250.

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[edit] Life

He was a half brother of Henry III of England;[1] his mother was Isabella of Angouleme, the second wife of King John, his father was Hugh X of Lusignan, the count of La Marche, whom Isabelle married in 1220. He was also the uncle of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.

The children of Isabella's marriage came to England in 1247 in the hope of obtaining court preferment. Aymer received a prebend in the diocese of London.[1] In 1250 the king, by putting strong pressure upon the electors, succeeded in obtaining the election of Aymer to the see of Winchester on November 4.[2] The appointment was in every way unsuitable. Aymer was illiterate, ignorant of the English language, and wholly secular in his mode of life. Upon his head was concentrated the whole of the popular indignation against the foreign favourites; and he seems to have deserved this unenviable distinction. However, he received confirmation of his election to the see from Pope Innocent IV on January 14, 1251, along with a dispensation to keep his other ecclesiastical income.[1] At the Parliament of Oxford in 1258 he and his brothers repudiated the Provisions of Oxford prepared by the barons. He was pursued to Winchester, besieged in Wolvesey castle, and finally compelled to surrender and leave the kingdom. He had never been consecrated; accordingly in 1259 the chapter of Winchester proceeded to a new election. Aymer, however, gained, the support of Pope Innocent IV; he was on his way back to England when he was overtaken by a fatal illness at Paris, having only been consecrated on May 16, 1260 before his death on December 4, 1260.[2]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on November 2, 2007
  2. ^ a b Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 258

[edit] References

  • Blaauws, W. H. Barons War (1871).
  • British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on November 2, 2007
  • Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
  • Protheros, G. W. Simon de Montfort (1877)
  • Stubbs, W. Constitutional History, vol. ii. (1896)
Religious titles
Preceded by
William de Raley		 Bishop of Winchester
1250–1260		 Succeeded by
Andrew of London

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Persondata
NAME Valence, Aymer de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lusignan, Aymer de; Valence, Thelmar de
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Winchester
DATE OF BIRTH circa 1222
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1260
PLACE OF DEATH Paris