Audley, Edmund
Audley, Edmund
(died 1524 ) Bishop , patron of letters. He received the degree of B.A. at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1463 , was successively Bishop of Rochester (1480 ), of Hereford (1492 ), and of Salisbury (1502 ), and was made chancellor of the Order of the Garter. Because he bestowed a benefice on Edward Powell for his book against Luther, he was complimented by Oxford University.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Audley, Edmund
an English prelate; was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and in 1463 took the degree of A.B. In 1471 he became prebendary of Farendon in the Church of Lincoln, and in October, 1475, attained a like-preferment in the Church of Wells. In the same year, on Christmas-day, he was made archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire; in 1480 he was promoted to the bishopric of Rochester, and in 1492 was translated to Hereford; thence to Salisbury in 1502. About this time he was made chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. In 1518 he gave four hundred pounds to Lincoln College, and bestowed upon the same house the patronage of a chantry, which he had founded in the cathedral church of Salisbury. He contributed. also to St. Mary’s Church in Oxford. He died Aug. 23, 1524, at Ramsbury, in the County of Wilts.