John Oxenbridge (priest)
John Oxenbridge LL.D. (died 25 July 1522) was a Canon of Windsor from 1509 to 1522.[1]
Family
[edit]He was the son of Robert Oxenbridge and Anne Lyvelode.[2]
Career
[edit]He was educated at the University of Valencia and graduated LL.B. in 1498 and LL.D by 1499.
He was appointed:
- Prebendary of Hampstead in Chichester Cathedral 1499
- Commissary and Sequestrator-General for the Bishop of Chichester in the Archdeaconry of Lewes 1498
- Vicar of Icklesham (resigned 1505)
- Vicar of Cullompton, Devon until 1522
- Vicar of Shillington, Bedfordshire 1505
- King's Clerk
He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1509, and held the stall until 1522. A chantry was built in the chapel in his memory under the fifth arch in the south aisle of the choir.[3] Over the door is a lion rampant, with escalope round him, with the rebus of the founder's name; an Ox, the letter N and a bridge.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
- ^ Cooper, W. D. (1856). "Notices of Winchelsea in and after the Fifteenth Century". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 8: 230. doi:10.5284/1085173.
- ^ Magna Britannia. Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Samuel Lysons. 1813
- ^ The Windsor Guide. C Knight. Windsor. 1804
