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JOHN DE STRATFORD (d. 1348)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 997 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN DE See also:STRATFORD (d. 1348)  , See also:archbishop of Canter-See also:bury, was See also:born at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon and educated at Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, afterwards entering the service of See also:Edward II . He served as See also:archdeacon of See also:Lincoln, See also:canon of See also:York and See also:dean of the See also:court of See also:arches before 1323, when he became See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, an See also:appointment which was made during his visit to See also:Pope See also:John XXII. at See also:Avignon and which was very much disliked by Edward II . In 1327 the bishop joined See also:Queen See also:Isabella's partisans; he See also:drew up the six articles against Edward II., and was one of those who visited the See also:captive See also:king at See also:Kenilworth to urge him to abdicate in favour of his son . Under Edward III. he became a member of the royal See also:council, but his high See also:political importance See also:dates from the autumn of 1330, the See also:time when See also:Roger See also:Mortimer lost his See also:power . In See also:November of this See also:year Stratford became See also:chancellor, and for the next ten years he was actively engaged in public business, being the king's most prominent adviser and being politically, says See also:Stubbs, the " See also:head of the Lancastrian or constitutional party." In 1333 he was appointed archbishop of See also:Canterbury and he resigned the chancellorship in the following year; however, he held this See also:office again from 1335 to 1337 and for about two months in 1340 . In November 1340 Edward III., humiliated, impecunious and angry, returned suddenly to See also:England from See also:Flanders and vented his wrath upon the archbishop's See also:brother, the chancellor, See also:Robert de Stratford . Fearing See also:arrest John de Stratford fled to Canter-bury, and entered upon a violent See also:war of words with the king, and by his See also:firm conduct led to the See also:establishment of the principle that peers were only to be tried in full See also:parliament before their own See also:order (en pleyn See also:parlement et devant See also:les piers) . But See also:good relations were soon restored between the two, and the archbishop acted as See also:president of the council during Edward's See also:absence from England in 1345 and 1346, although he never regained his former position of See also:influence . His concluding years were mainly spent in the See also:discharge of his spiritual duties, and he died at Mayfield in See also:Sussex on the 23rd of See also:August 1348 . John's brother, Robert de Stratford, was also one of Edward III.'s See also:principal ministers . He served for a time as See also:deputy to his brother, and in 1337 became chancellor and bishop of See also:Chichester; he lost the former office in 1340 and died on the 9th of See also:April 1362 . See also:Ralph de Stratford, bishop of See also:London from 134o until his See also:death at See also:Stepney on the 7th of April 1354, was a member of the same See also:family .

All three prelates were benefactors to Stratford-on-Avon .

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