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RICHARD FLEMING (d. 1431)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD FLEMING (d. 1431)  , bishop of . Lincoln, and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford, was born at Crofton in
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Yorkshire . He was descended from a good
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family, and was educated at University College, Oxford . Having taken his degrees, he was made prebendary of York in 1406, and the next
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year was junior proctor of the university . About this time he became an ardent Wycliffite, winning over many persons, some of high rank, to the side of the 'reformer, and incurring the censure of Archbishop Arundel . He afterwards became one of Wycliffe's most determined opponents . Before 1415 he was instituted to the rectory of Boston in
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Lincolnshire, and in 1420 he was consecrated bishop of Lincoln . In 1428-1429 he attended the
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councils of Pavia and
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Siena, and in the presence of the pope, Martin V., made an eloquent speech in vindication of his native country, and in eulogy of the papacy . It was probably on this occasion that he was named chamberlain to the pope . To Bishop Fleming was entrusted the execution of the decree of the council for the exhumation and. burning of Wycliffe's remains . The see of York being vacant, the pope conferred it on Fleming; but the king (Henry V.) refused to confirm the appointment . In 1427 Fleming obtained the royal licence empowering him to found a college at Oxford for the
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special purpose of training up disputants against Wycliffe's
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heresy .

He died at

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Sleaford, on the 26th. of
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January 1431 . Lincoln College was, however, completed by his trustees, and its endowments were afterwards augmented by various benefactors .

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