Richard Mayew

Richard Mayew (1439/40–1516), also written Mayo, was an English academic, who became Bishop of Hereford (1504 to 1516^[1]) and a diplomat for Henry VII of England.

Mayew was born in Hungerford in Berkshire. He was one of the party who brought Catherine of Aragon from Spain for her marriage, a mission commemorated in tapestries^[2].

He was President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1480 to 1507^[3]; previously he had been a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was brought in by William Waynflete^[4]. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1484–5, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1502.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Wrangwais, William Sutton	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1484–1485	Succeeded by John Taylor
Preceded by William Smyth	Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1502–1506	Succeeded by William Warham

Archdeacons of the East Riding

High Medieval	Ranulph • William of York • Hugh de Puiset • John of Canterbury • Ralph de Warneville • Geoffrey • Burchard de Puiset • Eustace • Hamo • Walter de Wisbech • Walter de Taney • Walter de Woburn • Simon of Evesham • Robert of Scarborough • John de Crowcombe

Late Medieval	Bertrand de Fargis • William de Ayremynne • Denis Haverel • Aymer Robert • John de Cestre • William de Walcote • Walter Skirlaw • John de Hermesthorp • William de Waltham • Francis Renzio de Alifia • Bartholomew Oleari • William Feryby • Christopher de Maronibus • William de Waltham (again) • Henry Bowet • John Wodham • Richard Tone • Robert Clifton • John Walter • Edmund Audley • Edward Pole • William Poteman • Henry Carnebull • John Hole

Modern	Richard Mayew • Thomas Magnus • John Dakyn • William Rokeby • Martin Parkinson • John May • Richard Remington • Marmaduke Blakiston • John Cosin • Clement Breton • Robert Hitch • William Brearey • Heneage Dering • Jaques Sterne • Robert Oliver • Thomas Constable • Darley Waddilove • Francis Wrangham • Robert Wilberforce • Charles Long • ... • David Butterfield