Edmund Lacey

Edmund Lacey
Bishop of Exeter
Church	Catholic
See	Diocese of Exeter
In Office	1420–1455
Predecessor	John Catterick
Successor	John Hales
Personal details
Died	18 September 1455
Previous post	Bishop of Hereford

Edmund Lacey (or Lacy; died 1455) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.

Lacey was educated at University College, Oxford, where he was a mature commoner, then Fellow, and subsequently Master of the College from 1398 until c.1401.^[1] The College prospered and developed under him, as well as under John Appleton and John Castell who followed him.^[2]^[2] He became dean of the Royal Chapel, accompanying King Henry V to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.^[3]

Lacey was elected to the see of Hereford between 21 January and 17 February 1417 and consecrated on 18 April 1417.^[4]

Lacey was translated to the see of Exeter on 15 July 1420. He died on 18 September 1455.^[5]

While bishop at Exeter, Lacey promoted the cult of the Archangel Raphael, proclaiming the feast in his diocese in 1443, and working throughout England to institute the cult.^[6]

Notes

^ Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. pages 45, 60, 73–74, 529.
^ ^a ^b Carr, William, University College, Routledge, 1998. ISBN 9780415186322. Chapter IV, The Fifteenth Century: Early Benefactors, Buildings, and Further Statutes (pages 53–73).
^ George Oliver, Edmund Lucy. In Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Exeter: William Roberts, Broadgate, 1861.
^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 251
^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
^ Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 171

References

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Swanson, R. N. (1995). Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37950-4.

Academic offices
Preceded by Thomas Duffield	Master of University College, Oxford 1398–c.1401	Succeeded by John Appleton
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Robert Mascall	Bishop of Hereford 1417–1420	Succeeded by Thomas Polton
Preceded by John Catterick	Bishop of Exeter 1420–1455	Succeeded by John Hales

Persondata
Name	Lacey, Edmund
Alternative names	Lacy, Edmund
Short description	Bishop of Exeter; Bishop of Hereford
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	18 September 1455
Place of death