Overview
The Archdeacon of Berkshire (also rendered Archdeacon of Berks) is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. The archdeacon is the head of the archdeaconry of Berkshire, a post historically found within the diocese of Salisbury, and then, from 7 October 1836, within Oxford diocese.
List of archdeacons
Some archdeacons without territorial titles are recorded from around the time of the Norman Conquest; see Archdeacon of Salisbury.
High Medieval
–aft. 1156: Roger
bef. 1173–bef. 1205: Geoffrey de Vernun
bef. 1206–aft. 1215: Alberic
aft. 1204–aft. 1222: Geoffrey
bef. 1224–aft. 1236: William of Merton
: Clement
: William de Raley
bef. 1237–aft. 1255: Giles of Bridport
: William
bef. 1266–aft. 1268: Walter Scammel
bef. 1275–bef. May 1284: Stephen of Newbury
aft. June 1284–bef. 1313: William de Berges
Late Medieval
10 March 1313–bef. December 1313: Richard de Bello
bef. December 1313–bef. August 1331 (d.): Tydo de Varesio
14 September 1317: Gilbert de Stapleton (ineffective royal grant)
21 August 1331–aft. 1333: Robert de Ayleston (previously Archdeacon of Wiltshire)
bef. 1334–aft. 1359: Edmund de la Beche (collated 12 September 1339)
aft. 1359–bef. 1365 (res.): Thomas Paxton
10 December 1365 – 1366 (res.): John Harewell
bef. 1371–aft. 1384: Guillaume Cardinal d'Aigrefeuille(Cardinal-priest of St Stephen al Monte Celio)
26 October 1389–aft. 1392: Thomas Yokflete
papal grants:
?–1390: Andrea Cardinal Bontempi Martini(Cardinal-priest of SS Marcellinus and Peter)
1390–22 April 1395 (exch.): Christopher Cardinal Marini(Cardinal-priest of San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane)
22 April 1395 – 25 November 1397 (res.): Walter Cook
royal grants:
22 September 1395: John Southam
28 September 1395: Walter Cook
20 October 1395: Ralph Repyngton
: John Wynwyk
9 February 1397 – 30 January 1404 (exch.): John Southam (afterwards Archdeacon of Oxford)
30 January–15 March 1404 (d.): Thomas Southam
bef. 10 June 1404–?: John Fraunceys
aft. 10 June–26 December 1404 (exch.): Simon Sydenham
26 December 1404– (exch.): Walter Medford
–bef. 31 May 1427: Peter de Alcobasso
25 June 1427 – 1431 (res.): Thomas Brunce
15 September 1431–bef. 1432: John Castell (possibly the Master of Univ)
24 September 1432 – 1433 (d.): Alexander Sparrow
18 October 1433 – 1462 (d.): John Norton (probably the Chancellor of Oxford)
15 February 1462 – 1464 (d.): Richard Ewen
9 March 1464 – 1465 (res.): Robert Stillington
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