Silvester de Everdon

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Silvester de Everdon
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Carlisle
Title Bishop of Carlisle
Period in office 12461254
Predecessor Walter Mauclerk
Successor Thomas Vipont
Religious career
Previous post Archdeacon of Chester
Personal
Date of death Spring of 1254
Place of death Northampton

Silvester de Everdon was a medieval Bishop of Carlisle and Lord Chancellor of England.

[edit] Life

He came from the town of Everdon in Northamptonshire, but other than the fact that he was related to a locally prominent family of Thorp, nothing else is known of his ancestry.[1] He was a priest in Northamptonshire from 1219. In 1229 he entered the service of Ralph Neville, who was Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor, as a chancery clerk and continued on in the chancery until his election to Carlisle.[2][1] In 1244 he became Lord Chancellor (holding the post until 1246)[3] and in 1245 he became the Archdeacon of Chester.[4] He was elected to the see of Carlisle about September 1, 1246 but declined the see.[4] He probably declined the see because of concerns over being rewarded for secular work with a clerical office.[1]

King Henry III of England] seems to have persuaded him that election was canonical, and he was elected again in November of 1246 and accepted.[1] Earlier, Matthew Paris had described Silvester as "the king's faithful clerk, dear and close, obtaining the first place in the chancery, where he served him wisely" and certainly Henry would have had the ability to persuade Silvester to accept the bishopric.[5] He was consecrated on October 13, 1247.[4] During his time as bishop he worked to settle a long standing dispute over the finances of the see between the bishop and the canons.[1] He also served as a royal justice and attended parliament.[1] He died in the spring of 1254,[6] after being thrown from a horse[2] near Northampton while on his way to the royal court.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Summerson "Everdon, Silvester of (d. 1254)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online Edition accessed November 20, 2007
  2. ^ a b Prestwich Plantagenet England p. 62
  3. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 85
  4. ^ a b c British History Online Bishops of Carlisle accessed on October 20, 2007
  5. ^ quoted in Summerson "Everdon, Silvester of (d. 1254)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online Edition accessed November 20, 2007
  6. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 235

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Political offices
Preceded by
Ralph Neville
Lord Chancellor
12441246
Succeeded by
John Maunsell
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Walter Mauclerk
Bishop of Carlisle
12461254
Succeeded by
Thomas Vipont
Persondata
NAME Everdon, Silvester de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH 1254
PLACE OF DEATH Northampton
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