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John de Stratford (d.
1348) was a
Archbishop of Canterbury and Treasurer and Chancellor of England.
Life
John was born at
Stratford-on-Avon and educated at
Merton College, Oxford, afterwards entering the service of
Edward II.
He served as archdeacon of
Lincoln, canon of
York and
dean of the court of arches before
June 20 1323, when he became
bishop of Winchester, an appointment which was made during his visit to
Pope John XXII at
Avignon and which was very much disliked by Edward II. In 1327 the bishop joined
Queen Isabella's partisans; he drew up the six articles against Edward II, and was one of those who visited the captive king at
Kenilworth to urge him to abdicate in favour of his son. On
November 26 1326 he was appointed
Lord Treasurer of England, a post he held until
January 28 1327.
Under
Edward III he became a member of the royal council, but his high political importance dates from the autumn of 1330, the time when
Roger Mortimer lost his power. In November of that year Stratford became
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 Stubbs, the "head of the Lancastrian or constitutional party."
On
November 3 1333 he was appointed archbishop of Canterbury and he resigned the chancellorship in the following year; however, he held this office again from 1335 to 1337 and for about two months in 1340. In November of 1340 Edward III, humiliated, impecunious and angry, returned suddenly to England from
Flanders and vented his wrath upon the archbishop's brother, the chancellor, Robert de Stratford. Fearing arrest John de Stratford fled to
Canterbury, and entered upon a violent war of words with the king, and by his firm conduct led to the establishment of the principle that peers were only to be tried in full parliament before their own order (
en pleyn parlement et devant les piers). But good relations were soon restored between the two, and the archbishop acted as president of the council during Edward's absence from England in 1345 and 1346, although he never regained his former position of influence. His concluding years were mainly spent in the discharge of his spiritual duties, and he died at
Mayfield in
Sussex on
August 23 1348.
[
Robert de Stratford and Ralph de Stratford, bishop of London from 1340 until his death at Stepney on April 7 1354, were members of the same family. All three prelates were benefactors to Stratford-on-Avon.]
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