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Robert Stillington

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**Robert Stillington**


Denomination	Catholic
Senior posting
See	Diocese of Bath and Wells
Title	Bishop of Bath and Wells
Period in office	1465–1491
Predecessor	Thomas Beckington
Successor	Richard Foxe
Personal
Date of birth	1420
Place of birth
Date of death	May 1491

Robert Stillington (1420-1491) was Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England. It is alleged by some that it was he who presented evidence that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid due to Edward's earlier betrothal to Lady Eleanor Talbot.

1 Life
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

Life

He was Archdeacon of Wells when he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1460 to 1467.^[1] He was selected as Bishop of Bath and Wells on October 30 1465, and was consecrated on March 16 1466.^[2] He was appointed Lord Chancellor on June 20 1467 and held the office until September 29, 1470. He then was restored to office when Edward IV returned to the throne and held it until June 18 1473.^[3] In 1478 he spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence. He was imprisoned again in 1485, shortly after Henry VII's victory at Bosworth. Some say this was due to Stillington's involvement in the matter of Edward IV's bigamy, for the new king needed to reverse the bigamy charges that made his future queen, Elizabeth of York, illegitimate. Some years after his second release, Stillington became involved in the plot to place the impostor Lambert Simnel on the throne in 1487. He was imprisoned a third time, and died in prison, in May of 1491.^[2]

Notes

^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 92
^ ^a ^b Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 206
^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 85

References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

Political offices
Preceded by Laurence Booth	Lord Privy Seal 1460–1467	Succeeded by Thomas Rotheram
Preceded by George Neville	Lord Chancellor 1467–1470	Succeeded by George Neville
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Thomas Beckington	Bishop of Bath and Wells 1466–1491	Succeeded by Richard Foxe

Persondata
NAME	Stillington, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Bath and Wells; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH	1420
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	May 1491
PLACE OF DEATH